Update on new legs, x rays, and starting school

It has been a while since I have written and I'm pretty sure she has had 3 legs since I last posted. She got an Eiffel Tower leg, a Tinkerbell leg, and now has a butterfly leg. As you can see by the next few pictures, she really wears out her legs! She was missing the big toe on her foot for about 2 months before we finally got her new leg.

 

 Here she is getting casted for her new leg:

She decorated it like a watermelon.:)

 

This was her most recent x-ray. Her prosthetic was pretty short on her and so that is why it has the 2 cm lift under it. As you can see by the x-ray, her knock knee is slowly getting worse. They are watching it and don't want to do the 8-plate surgery until they have to.They will wait until it starts hurting or until it gets so knock kneed that they have trouble fitting a prosthetic on her.. The longer they can wait, the better because then there is less of a likelihood of having to do the surgery twice.

  

There was a mix-up with the fabrics for her new leg. We brought a Hawaiian style fabric in for her new leg, but when we got there her prosthetist said that her leg fabric got mixed up! Luckily it was mixed up with a pink sparkly butterfly fabric or I think we might have had a very sad little girl on our hands! She was pretty excited about her new butterfly leg! She has now had that leg for 2 months and it;s been a good one so far. We went in once to have a little adjustment done because the inside of her knee was being rubbed raw. The prosthetist just adjusted it a little and it's been great ever since.

 

 

Sydney started 1st grade a few weeks ago as well! She's loving 1st grade and has done really well with it. The first day of first grade and Kindergarten I went in and gave a 5 minute presentation about her leg to all the little kids. I went in and basically explained that she has something different about her. She has a prosthetic that helps her walk just like how glasses can help kids to see and braces help kids teeth. All kids have things that make them different, and this is something that makes her different. I then passed around a couple of her old legs so the kids could touch and feel them, and then asked the kids if they had any questions. I feel this helped the kids get their questions and curiosity out and Sydney hasn't had problems with it so far in kindergarten and 1st grade.

This picture is my favorite! She wanted to show me how excited she was for 1st grade!😋

Sometime around Christmas last year, Sydney's prosthetist gave her the sweetest gift! He altered an American girl doll and put a prosthetic on it that matched her Eiffel Tower leg. It was the cutest thing and she really loves that doll!