Quinn got her last cast off on October 14th and was happy as a clam the whole time at the hospital! Dr Kontio was very pleased with how her foot looked and we have to go back to see him 6 weeks from that appointment. We then had to go to Nepean to pick up her boots and bars. It was there that we found out that Ontario has an "Assistive Devices Program" that pays for 75% of the brace, so we were thrilled about that! It will always be applied even when we have to get her bigger boots as she grows. They told us that we were to just put the boots on her for the first 2 days, then add the bar. We always are to keep her right foot at 45-degrees, and her left foot started at 45-degrees. Then every 2 days we adjust her left foot 5-degrees until we get to 60-degrees. Today we started at 55-degrees, so pretty soon we'll have her all the way adjusted! She actually hasn't minded the boots or bar that much when it's on....just really doesn't like it when we have to hold her foot to put the shoes on.
The only annoyance with the boots/bars is that every time we put her into her carseat, we have to take the bar half off to loop her legs through...and obviously the same goes for taking her out of the seat, so it makes things a little bit more of an ordeal! But we're getting used to it!
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| Last picture with her cast |
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| Another "new" foot shot |
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| Look at her "new" foot! |
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| Her boots |
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| Her boots with the bar |
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| Just a point of reference for what her foot was like before treatment |
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