At least her arm wont get moldy

Casts sure are easy these days. When I had a cast as a child it was made out of plaster and weighed about twenty five pounds. I remember sitting on the cold metal chair when a large scary man with a saw approached me to remove my cast. I remember staring at the man like he was a lunatic, and when he removed the cast my arm was green with fungus and mold from sneaking into my neighbors swimming pool against my mom's knowledge or approval.



The Doctor yelled at me for sticking a quarter down my cast which left a pretty deep impression of George Washington's face on my forearm. Yesterday Megan stuck her iPod down her cast which had to be pushed out with the aide of a long handled screwdriver and some creativity.

The beauty of these fiberglass casts is that they are waterproof and she has been able to take a VERY OVERDUE shower.



I don't think they're easy to sign though, you could write on the old-fashioned plaster casts with pencil or ball point pens. With these you have to use a sharpie, which Megan has been illegally sneaking into school this week because apparently it's ALL about the signatures.

I know, she went with boring old blue. She has to get re-casted again in two weeks so maybe I can talk her into balck and she can get all her signatures in metallic or gold. I'm pretty certain she is going to be high from sniffing markers all day.