Wednesday afternoon Grace had her first cast put on. Her contracture is at -5degrees and the goal/need is to get her flexion to 15degrees so her foot needs to flatten by 20degrees. This is what the CP does. I will try to post some pictures later. So Grace got the 'Super Boot' on and was in a lot of discomfort. Even though the Botox paralized the gastrocnemius, plantaris and soleus musles. The other calf musles (politeus, flexor digitorum longus, the flexor hallucious longus, the fibularis longus, fibularis brevis and the tibialis) did not get much use due to the contracture of the first mentioned musles! Whew, that is a finger twister! So I believe that those musles got shorter so the stretching is very uncomfortable especially in a fixed stretch.
Grace is so tough on the outside, then once we got in the car and we were about five minutes away the tears started streaming down her face and she just lost it. She just cried that it hurt. I explained to Grace that Mommy and Daddy would never have taken her to get the 'Super Boot' put on unless it was for the best and needed to happen. I reminded her that she could do all things through God who gives her strength and once all this was over with she would be able to run faster and ride her big girl bike and so on.
She had a rough night, but we got through it and all is great today. A big thank you to Carole and Carly at CHOA in Alpharetta! They are so wonderful to us!
Have a beautiful day!
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