Still Holding Out Hope

We saw a new Dr. yesterday and this one does ankle replacement surgery. Unfortunately Heidi isn't a candidate for the surgery. Since she had such a bad infection they can't do that type of surgery, it adds to many foreign objects into her body and her body will fight them off naturally thinking it is another infection. There is just too high of risk that she would lose her foot to the infection.

He did give us a few other ideas to try before fusing her ankle. He was a really nice Dr. and he took the time to talk and discuss it with us. One procedure would be braces and we are looking into that option. That would give her some pain relief and allow her a few more years (hopefully) before the ankle fusion. The other option he talked about is a procedure done by a Dr. in Portland and it is called distraction. I have had much chance to investigate it yet and we aren't sure she could do that because of the infections, again. If this is possible it would give her another few years before fusion.

We have another Dr. appointment on Friday with another new Dr. for another opinion. We will see what he says also. We also see the wound specialist tomorrow and we have Physical therapy today and Friday. Basically we spend a lot of our time in the Dr. offices.

Last night we went to Open house for High School and Heidi is looking forward to going back to school and being with her friends next fall. Emma also is looking forward to school and starting Kindergarten. I must admit that I am looking forward to having a break from them both.LOL Hopefully I can get my daycare back up and running by Aug. We shall see. You can't run a daycare if your not ever home so I need to get PT and Dr. appointments back to normal and reasonable amounts first.

we are still trying to be upbeat and hopeful that all this is going to work out okay and we try to throw a little fun into the mix, tonight I think we are going to dye Easter Eggs.