Brace #11
Delivery day! I was grumpy today, because Amy’s Little Brother took a small part of her wheelchair off. I ordered the part he took (and lost!) from Medline (the wheelchair company) but I’m hopeful it will turn up. (Ugh!) 3 Read more…
Delivery day! I was grumpy today, because Amy’s Little Brother took a small part of her wheelchair off. I ordered the part he took (and lost!) from Medline (the wheelchair company) but I’m hopeful it will turn up. (Ugh!) 3 Read more…
Okay, so we have a plan. Stanford called. (Okay, I got impatient and called.) So, the plan: Surgery is on Tuesday, December 10th. The plan is to spend 1-2 nights in the hospital, so hopefully we will be discharged on Read more…
I feel like we have waited ages for thie appointment. Amy has been out of school, but then suddenly over the weekend, she seemed to be better. She even said she didn’t want to take her wheelchair to see Dr. Read more…
Here we are. Exactly 2 weeks from my last post. Exactly 1 day after hugging my baby while she cried, because I don’t have the power to make it stop hurting. For the last two weeks, she has spent more Read more…
I caved. I wrote Dr. Frick early, told him about the bone grafts, and my confusion. He returned my email in less than 4 hours. Impressive!!! Here is his reply: I did speak w Dr Karol- she recommended bone grafting Read more…
So, I’m on Facebook doing me thing, and then up pops a member of our community, saying, “HEY! I ran across Amy’s video on YouTube, very cute.” Wait, really? Like… in the wild? I thought that was pretty cool! So Read more…
So, we managed to get into Hanger to see Cammie pretty quick, so that’s a blessing. So I was super happy to give Cammie the good news that Amy had not fractured. *high five* We talked about adjustments to the Read more…
So, we pulled the Exogen out of storage, put the gel on, attached it to her, got her set up with a show, and let her turn on the Exogen. The first thing is showed was the calendar filled with Read more…
Here we are. Back at Stanford. It was only about 2 months ago that we were here saying goodbye to Dr. Hoffinger. This is also where we met him. Maybe lightning will strike twice? Anyways, today we are meeting Dr. Read more…
I can’t even begin to tell you how I feel right now. Amy’s Dad is all but dead set against Florida. On top of being at odds with him, I’m freaked out about financials with 4 other kids to care Read more…