Took 'K' to her podiatrist for a follow up visit from her surgery mid June. Nothing to report other than he didn't like how she walked and asked about her shoes. He had only told her to get 'sturdy' shoes during her recovery. The Physical Therapist sent her to a specialty store they use to get the shoes. It is a running shoe store but they said the people there knew their stuff and would get her fixed up. Yeah, they did, to the tune of 200+$ for the shoes plus inserts they said she had to have. Over the next few months she did get better but could tell her foot was rolling to one side and hurt often during and after walking.
The doctor, after seeing her walk and talk about her complaint of her foot rolling, said he could fix that with some tweaks to her shoe. It didn't work and he then decided she had a 'running shoe' and she needed to have a 'walking shoe.' Yes, exactly. He sent her to Academy at least and not some high dollar shoe store like the last one. 49$ for another pair of shoes. So we have spent right at 300$ on shoes with the expensive probably never to be worn again. This is not a hit we need at Christmas time. She was a good sport and said 'merry Christmas to me.' She meant this would be her Christmas gift. I admire that, but she will still get some Christmas gifts. She deserves them. I just hope these work out and she will be back to normal soon. No idea how long that will be, the doc reiterated that this was a knarly surgery and requires a long recovery. He wouldn't put a time frame on it. So we will be as patient as we can.
We had all 3 Grandkids at the house Friday night. It was surprisingly easier than I would have thought. The two older ones kept the Nugget (our 10 month old Granddaughter) busy nearly the entire time. They had her attention entirely. It was as if Poppy and Nani were only there just in case. We were ignored by her almost completely. She is totally enraptured with the older cousins so it was less work for us keeping her entertained. It was fun to watch her.
Happy Trails
2 comments:
OUch on the shoes, but glad the grands kept each other occupied! 2 weeks of wrangling a 5 year old and 3 year old wore my ass out!
Old NFO-we just have to suck it up on the shoes. It happens. I can't imagine 2 weeks of chasing grandkids. more than my ass would be wore out.
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