This is Ruthie waiting in the doctor’s office.

She was waiting to hear results from the x-ray.

She had an x-ray taken of her right leg.

The doctor ordered the x-ray because Ruthie was not able to bear any weight on her right leg.

She couldn’t bear weight on her right leg because the night before, she had fallen off the bottom rung of the boys’ bunk bed ladder.

The official result of the x-ray: no break, just a nasty sprain.

An interesting bit of Johanik trivia: Ruth is the first child in the family to require an x-ray due to a potential broken bone.