Heidi's leg contraption.

As Heidi had requested I left the camera in the car at the hospital. No one likes to have their photo taken when they are miserable. She did let me take a few shots of it this morning. Mostly for her Aunt Jackie to see, because Heidi thinks Jackie has a weird foot fascination thing going on. So here is a shot of her foot just laying on her side.

Here is a shot of the top of her foot.

You can't really see much with the bandages, but they will be coming off next week and we will take a few more shots then.

Here is the bottom of her foot. You can see the rods and wires a little here. The big black horseshoe in the photo is attached to her leg.

This is a close up. The blood is old and no big deal. She does have a few stitches in her heel. They will come out next week. There are also stitches on the top of the foot, under the bandages. When all the bandages come off we will start stretching the ankle joint by moving the screws a little each day. They will be lengthening it a total of 5mm, over 10 days. That's my job. Makes me feel like the torcher chamber person. Then the new cartilage can grow back into the joint. There is a really cool shoe part that hooks onto the bottom of this and in a couple of weeks she will be walking on it.