THE CAST

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PART 1: RED

This story has two parts. There is a reason why part 1 is called "red". Simply put it is the red cast. But before we get too far into this story, let's go back where and how it happened. Franklin was fixing the carport lights with new diffusers to make it look nicer. He was going up and down the ladder on a bright sunny and very hot day. Ellie came outside to help him. Let's use the word help loosely. She put on her rollerblades and was bumping around in the carport. Eventually she wanted to leave to go rollerblading. So Franklin continued to work on his own.

Not too long after, some kids run up to the house to inform Franklin that Ellie had fallen and she is hurt. Franklin knocked on the glass and told Dana. They both headed over to see Ellie. That is when they discovered that Ellie was laying in front of one house, with her protective equipment multiple houses down sitting on a lawn. Why one might ask? Well it was bothering her.

We took Ellie to the hospital and she got her red cast. She asked for us to record this video of her waking up from the drugs.

Side notes;

We told her to think of chicken nuggets. She said she would eat 200. We got her a stuffed animal and cut off some body parts to make it like a nugget.
She was having a popsicle which was red. She was convinced that it was mango.
We took her for nuggets right after the hospital

We will pause this story to look at her cast signatures...

Part 2 Blue

Now you see Ellie here on the left? She does not look happy. She has a red cast on, not blue. So why would this chapter of the story be called blue? We'll Ellie went to Quin's house after school and went swimming with her cast on. Yes you read that correctly. Less then a week in and she had to go back to the hospital to get it re-casted. Hence why Ellie did not look happy.

While there was a risk of starting the whole procedure over, everything worked out well. Ellie now has a Blue cast. Only a few more swimming times to collect all the colors!