Drum Roll Please!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pre-surgery smiles

We were up-and-at-um way too early this morning, O'dark 30 if I recall! Anywho, we scooted over to the hospital via a catwalk from the hotel, through the Jewish Hospital and over another catwalk to St. Luke's! Dr. Dobbs stopped by the room just before she was taken back and we caught a quick picture with our hero!

Shortly after that, she was whisked away to the OR to have her casts and ankle pin removed. This took less than an hour from start to finish and Dr. Dobbs called the waiting room to tell us how thrilled he was with her new x rays and the how her feet looked! He said she may be too sore to put much weight on them for a few days but that she should be up and running quickly! She was then brought back to us and David from the brace clinic came by to bring us her specially fitted Dobbs brace. She will wear this brace at night but we were asked to have her wear it a little bit in the day for the first few days so she will get used to it.

She was thrilled at seeing her feet and kept lifting them up to look but when Mr. David put her brace on and she was NOT happy with that development! It is definitely different than having casts on and she was not as compliant as usual because the Anesthesia was still wearing off. Let me just say that she is not the same child when the Anesthesia is wearing off and poor Mr. David got an earful from her! She kept saying, "take shoe off!" but we distracted her with a popsicle and it wasn't long before she was investigating her new equipment.....or maybe she was trying to figure out if she could get out of it!

Investigating!

Playing!

She can still move her legs but there is a different sensation because of the bar that keeps them at the same distance from each other. She is also extremely concerned because she can not see the toes of one of her feet. Her feet are placed at different angles because of the different deformity. The right foot is turned out because that is the position for a club foot and the other foot is positioned straight out because that is the position for a vertical talus. She can see the toes on her left foot but not the right one easily and this bothers her!

Now we are back in our room at the hotel getting ready to go. She is still in her brace and has recovered from the drugs for the most part, although she is still having a few moments. She sits in the window looking for buses and bicycles (her favorites) and singing the Wheels on the Bus but the next minute she bursts into tears and we don't really know why!

She also insists that she needs to "go for walk, NOW!", and she means she wants to WALK! So, I am about to take this brace off and if I get a chance I will update again today with pictures of her feet!