On Thursday the "harder" of the two physical therapists was very pleased with Mary's knee. He said it finally has some "movement" and he measured -14 degrees. The goal is a full extension of 0 degrees. Recently she has been improving 2 degrees with her ankle and knee EACH PT visit.
Mary had her follow up with Dr. Scott today and for the first time he was VERY happy with her knee. It doesn't look like the knee is sublixating anymore. He said we have finally moved out of the worry zone. He has been worried about her knee since May 29 which was only 19 days into this procedure! This was a huge relief because 8 days ago he was mentioning putting a ring back on her thigh to adjust the knee.
A cute story was Mary said she "didn't even do anything" to get her knee there. I about died. You never confess you didn't work hard :-) but the funny thing is she has done A LOT of very hard work to get it there...what she meant was she wasn't straining to get her knee to the point Dr. Scott got it to today meaning it probably could have extended even more when he was examining her.
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| He said her bone is looking good |
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| He pointed out the "wave" as a result of adjusting the tibia 8 days ago |
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| This picture shows the line from where the blue wire was |
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| Disappointed getting the new AFO measured |
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| Fancy new AFO material- completely different than all of our previous versions |
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| Here's the final version AFO- we walked out the door with |
Mary has to wear a shoe with the AFO. Her foot has been so swollen we haven't previously been able to get her foot in a shoe. I was finally able to get her foot to go into a shoe a couple of days ago but it was tight and the AFO takes space so we are off to buy some shoes tomorrow.
Dr. Scott's prescription to Mary today was he wants her to get to using 2 crutches, then one crutch, then walk!!! We see him again in 2 weeks.
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