A little before Halloween, Mikayla was able to get out of her sling and start to slowly move it again. She had some guidelines to keep her from reinjuring herself. No pushups, no swinging from monkey bars, no rough housing. Be careful for another month. She says it feels weird to lift her arm above her head.
To be clear, her crazy collar bones didn't really move back together but just welded themselves together in the oddball position they were in. So her bones are solid but not straight. She can do this really weird thing with her shoulders that makes her pointy collar bone stick up and it is pretty creepy. The bones will remodel themselves but it will take about a year. She will end up with a normal looking collar bone but until then, she's got a cool party trick.
If you look closely, you can see the new bone built a bridge between the crazy break. The human body is amazing. In researching how bones know how to grow back together, I learned that bones bleed when they break. The blood clot between the broken ends tells the body where to start rebuilding bone. Awesome!
After another month, at the beginning of December, she was given the green light to slowly start doing things again. Start slowly. Do one push up and see how it feels. Start slow and discontinue if there's any pain. What a trooper!
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