Today was Alison's follow-up appointment with Dr. Craig and she got her cast off (thank goodnes!). Despite having had "casts" -- the molds for her braces -- taken off before, she was not to thrilled with the saw. She wasn't cut or anything, but I think Dr. Craig got a little too deep at one point and buzzed her hand because she did scream and start crying. She was also quite upset when she saw the stitches on her thumb, but she calmed down as soon as she got a band-aid put on it. She has a bright blue neoprene splint that she's supposed to wear for most of the day today and then we're supposed to start leaving it off for longer and longer periods of time over the next few days until we have her wearing it only at night. We go back to have Dr. Craig check everything out again in two weeks.