Break a Leg!

As I was teaching on Thursday, August 10, Maria was out playing in the front yard of the place we are staying in in the city of Bangalore.

She hopped from one granite bench to another and then missed …. falling with all her weight onto her left foot, causing a break in her bone and growth plate of her lower leg. I’ll try to scan the x-ray when we get back home so you all can see Maria’s handiwork! Her spirits are high, especially as she is calling her friends to tell them all. We will appreciate your prayers for our train trip back to Pune on Sunday and over the next couple of months as Maria remains incapacitated. No more bike rides nor rickshaw rides across town for a while!

The doctors have given a good to fair prognosis that it will heal well and not interfere with her normal leg growth. Where we are staying is very close to a hospital, so it was very convenient that she broke her leg now rather than other times or places where we usually are at least a 30 minute drive away.

We are schedule to leave Bangalore at 3PM on Sunday for a 20 hour trian ride back to Pune. There are 'berths' on the train so she should have an ok time laying down but the movement of the train may make it difficult to keep her leg stable. Getting on and off the train could be a challenge as the trains don't stop for more than a few minutes in the train station. :-)

We'll let you know how things pan out.