The toes continue to be a challenge. Prior to the manipulation procedure on Tuesday Mary could pull her toes so they were in line with her foot but just like after getting the fixator on, her toes are curled and she can't pull them up.
Mary is still having a hard time recovering from Tuesday. Her coloring still looks off to me and she has a lot of aches and pains. Her knee is sore during the day and at night she is really sore in her hip, glutes, and back. At night she can't be massaged enough.
Mary still has 2 bad bruises from her IV on Tuesday:
Mary and I have been talking a lot about catch 22 situations.
- Physical Therapy is not fun but its important because it will make her feel better.
- Her body hurts as it learns to be straight but being straight will feel so much better.
- Mary told me she had a dream last night she was walking without a fixator and any apparatuses. I thought it was a happy dream but she told me it wasn't. I guess it was frustrating to her since it was a dream vs. reality.
- And we haven't talked about it but ironically the most comfortable way for her to sleep is on her non-fixator side. She will have scars on her fixator leg from the incisions, pins, and wires. It looks like she may also have marks on her right leg even though she puts a pillow on her right leg for the fixator to rest on:
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| Marks on non-fixator leg from sleeping on her side |
She is once again learning how to do more things independently but the immobilized knee is still very frustrating to her.
Sleep is better than Tuesday night but she still wakes up during the night because she is so uncomfortable.
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| Daddy fell asleep while reading this afternoon |
Mary is really disliking the daily pin site cleanings now because some of them are really painful when cleaned.
We started turning her struts again after taking 3 days off per Dr. Scott. Tomorrow "should be" the 4 cm. mark (1-3 more cm. to go)...
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