A Mother's Sacrifice and REALLY?!

Okay...so, back in February we took leave from Korea to go home and show off our new baby boy. Well in the middle of our trip Josh, Carson and I decided to go to Genghis Grill. I know...YUMM!! We finish a wonderful meal and headed to the car. For whatever reason I decided to carry Carson out of the restaurant. I usually didnt because, go figure, I'm clumsy and didnt want to fall with him. Well low and behold what happens you ask?! I FALL! I completely missed the curb and fell forward holding my precious 2 month old baby. ONLY by the grace of God and I guess my "motherly instincts" he managed to never hit the ground. I'm telling you, the Lord's angels caught him. After I stopped screaming and writhing on the ground in pain, we go to Baptist ER to find out the damages. In the process of my self sacrifice I manged to scrap up my knee and foot, and end up with a non displaced fracture of the fifth metatarsal. In laments terms, I bit the dust and broke my foot!


I told you that sweet, little story just so I could tell you this one next.


Present day: November 2, 2011.
NINE MONTHS LATER....


I go to the doctor today because my foot has been hurting here lately. Not just on the side where I broke it but on the top of my foot as well. My doctor pulls up my x-rays from about a month ago to look at them. She is able to tell me the problem right away. The reason the top of my foot had been hurting, was because the navicular bone has crushed in on itself. (flippin' awesome) And thats not all! She believes she sees another fracture on the opposite side of my foot. So can someone please explain to me WHY IN THE WORLD AM I JUST FINDING THIS OUT NOW??!! She is literally the SEVENTH doctor I have seen about my foot (and Im not exaggerating for dramatic effect!) and she is the only one who has pointed out these other fractures. She goes on to tell me what has happend. Since my foot has been broken for so long with no proper repair, there is no blood flow to the fractured parts. You need blood flow to the damaged area for it to even begin to heal itself. So since I've had none, essentially she is telling my that my bone is dying. IM SORRY WHAT?! My bone is dying?! Yep, thats what she said. So in a nutshell, I broke my foot 9 months ago, zero out of the 6 doctors I saw before took care if it properly. So now I absolutely have to have 2 pins put in my foot or else "you will walk with a limp when you get older and have to have multiple surgeries to try and correct it." Her words...not mine.