.....The last few weeks have been joyful and tearful, 8 weeks post Spica Maisie finally started walking again! We were so delighted that she was finally walking again and could start to "enjoy" being hands free to carry whatever around with the struggles. Maisie is more pleased with herself each day she does more and more. However for a few weeks now there has been a concern on the pain that Maisie seems to be in while she's in her splint. I cannot get her leg to sit in her splint at all, it sits very far away from the hard part at the back. It has also started to become uncomfortable during the night. The other night I ended up taking it off because she seemed in pain with it on, and i must have been right, because as soon as i had taken it off she curled up into a little ball and went off to sleep and stayed asleep. After this i decided i was going to ring her surgeon and explain what its come to....
....The phone call was made this morning while she was at our local outpatients clinic. I explained to the secretary what my concerns were and asked that she would speak to the surgeon to get her view, while i was still on the phone, the secretary rang down to her room and before i knew it Maisie's surgeon was on the phone to me, I explained about the pains and her discomfort & explained to her how Maisie tells us she's hurting around her scar area. The surgeon told us to leave the splint, we cannot force her into it and if it's hurting her then there is no point to use it. She also explained that she had showed Maisie's x-ray form her last appointment to her other colleagues who had said that Maisie's hip has re-dislocated. The MRI is still required to find out exactly what is going on, but a surgery date has already been arranged for 15th September for a second surgery for Maisie. I asked her what kind of surgery we would be looking at, and she replied by saying, another open reduction with a possibility of an Osteotomy being done at the same time, but that they would know better once they had the results from the MRI. Maisie's surgeon wont be there on Tuesday 6th September, but once she has Maisie's results and has spoken to her other colleagues and they have a clear picture she will let us know what is to be done.....
Steph xxxx
