Casting for her shortened achilles tendon (March 2015 - 3.5 years old)

Sydney had a club foot/ fibular Hemimelia appointment. She has these about every 6 months, so I was looking forward to seeing if they had anything new to say.
Her brother was a fan of the toys they had in the waiting room.

I took this picture and sent it to my husband telling him about how they had put us in a room set up for doing the castings for club foot that we had done with Sydney when she was a baby and how it was bringing back such "fun" memories..lol and then about 2 minutes into the appointment the dr said Sydney needed a cast. Talk about some negative foreshadowing!lolSydney's right leg is shorter than her right and she had apparently been walking on her tippy toes on her right leg and that had tightened her Achilles on that leg and it needed some stretching out. They stretched her leg and then put a cast on it for a week to stretch it out. They wanted Sydney to come back for new casts once a week until it was better so we made 2 more appointments for the next two weeks just in case. More on that later in the post.

 She did great getting her cast on. The Dr was really impressed and said she does better than even the teenagers.lol

 She's was quite a fan of her pink cast

 About 2 days after getting her cast on she was complaining that it was hurting a ton and wouldn't walk on it.

 After a day or 2 of her complaining and occasionally bursting into tears we went back in to the office to have them take off the cast and check to make sure there were no blisters or problems with it. After determining that it was fine and that it was probably just her Achilles stretching that was hurting they put on another cast and we made another appointment for a week from that day to get that one off and the next one on.Sydney was pretty excited that she got to get a new color. She chose red for her 2nd cast. More to come on that in the next post.