Progress, No Progress

• Mary has made progress in how much of her foot she can put down during a PT session.

Can barely get the ball of her foot down 8/11/12



Can almost get her whole foot down 8/18/12



•  But we have to continually remind her to try to walk on her foot when she is moving about.
• She also made a great stride in her range of motion in her ankle in just a couple of days. She was at 15 degrees on Monday and on Thursday she was at 9 degrees.
• But there has been no progress with getting her leg to extend straight because her knee is sensitive/tender due to the 2nd infection which is near her knee.
• The first antibiotic didn't have an effect after 5 days so she started a RX for a different antibiotic today. She had only taken 15 days of the original antibiotic total since her first infection in June but she must have built up a resistance to it. The good news for Mary is she says the new antibiotic taste a little better than the first one and she takes it 2 times a day vs. 3 times a day.
• Mary is trying to spend the night at her Grandparents house tonight. In order to get in some Physical Therapy sessions in and make sure she didn't have a reaction to her new antibiotic before they left they went over in the early afternoon and will be picked up about the same time tomorrow.
• Mary was excited to be in charge of her PT and pin site cleanings. :-)
• We are very excited about some time to get some much needed things done around the house (like make the skirts she needs when school starts on Tuesday) and hopefully get one uninterrupted night sleep!!! We have had one uninterrupted night sleep since May 10 and that was on August 2 after the removal of her thigh ring and foot plates.