The Decision Has Been Made!

What a confusing two days! Grace's pt asked us to consult with our pediatrician about what her thoughts were on bracing Grace's feet so that she doesn't pronate so much (roll her ankle inwards). So Monday when we were in for a pneumonia re check I asked her. She told me she didn't really have an educated answer but knew who we should see. So she referred us to a Dr. in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitaton. I called Tuesday morning to make the appt. figuring it would be several weeks out before we saw her. Well they had to call me back and called me Tuesday afternoon and asked if we could be there Wednesday afternoon at 1:40, after I got over my shock I said yes we will be there!

So Wed. we went to see this dr. (remind me to tell you about the nurse) She was a great lady and really knew how to work with kids and young kids at that. She knew just how to distract or talk to Grace so she would do what she wanted her to do. She was quite impressed with how well grace handled all the poking and prodding and stuff and I said " I think she's used to it its been happening for over a year now, different Dr's same thing!" Anyways she told me that yep Grace was going to need braces but still questioned as to when, as is the PT, which is why we went there for another opinion. Well she decided that Grace could wait and we would see her in 2 months and then go from there. She told me not to expect Grace to be walking in that 2 months but she could be wrong. So we set up our appt. for two months from now, knowing that would be the time we get the referral for the orthotics.

So fast forward to this morning, we go to PT and am telling the PT about our appt. yesterday and she was very surprised we got in so quickly! Well becuase the appt. was made and finished before we saw her again, she had decided to get Grace fitted for the braces at our next appt. in two weeks! So I told her what the other dr said. So after some discussion we decided to go ahead with it for several reasons: 1) It will take awhile for the braces to come in 2) Grace is going to eventually need them and her feet aren't growing in leaps and bounds so her growing out of them is not a worry, 3) I am just ready for this part of the process to be done. We have been going back and forth on the brace issue for months now and I am just happy that we finally ahve a definite answer that YES she will need them. The only cons to her getting them now is that she may regress in her gross motor skills because the braces will make things harder to move around in but she will quickly learn how to redo everything with them on!!!!

I put in a call to the DR we saw on Wed. to see if she was okay with us bracing Grace at this time, so that if she is not I can contact our PT and have her cancel the appt. with the orthotist. I have to say that our PT was kind enough to schedule the orthotist to come to our PT appt. and the orthotist was kind enough to come to our 7am PT appt. so I don't want to wait too long to cancel.

So that is the update on where we are at with Grace. I keep telling myself that someday this will all be over!