Day 18 of 30 Mary started getting uncomfortable. We were surprised because other than the rash to the skin glue the internal leg lengthening has been going smoothly and usually things start getting uncomfortable around 5 cm. and she was at 2 cm.
On Days 21 and 23 Mary was so uncomfortable she had to stay home versus do activities that she did the week before. One day she described it as it "felt like her quad had done a million squats."
She had to keep moving positions to try to get comfortable and had trouble sleeping a couple of nights.
The good news is after seeing her Physical Therapist on day 24 and learning she was really tight and needed lots of massaging we backed off some PT and we focused more on massaging and it seemed to help.
We go to her doctor in 2 days and we are hoping he confirms we are at 3 cm. and she can stop lengthening and begin the consolidation phase and weight bearing.
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