New leg time! Her geometric leg was getting a little tight. When they made her leg it was already a little small for her and she could only wear it with a nylon tights kind of sock, so when it started getting to small there wasn't any wiggle room for adjusting it and she needed a new leg. We went in and had her first casting/fitting. Then about a week later we went in for a fitting.
We first had to go see a doctor to get a "prescription" for getting a new leg(you have to get a new prescription once a year).
Sydney chose ice cream cone fabric for her leg.
After seeing the doctor we went back into the lobby and waited for about an hour and a half and then were told that it was going to be another hour because our prosthetist accidentally broke the check socket and it would take him 2 hours to make a new one.
So instead of waiting there for another 2 hours, we headed out to the movies and saw Finding Dory! That was a fun little twist to our day!
After the movie was over we headed back to the doctor's and they did a fitting with her check socket.
And funny enough! We came back a week and a half later to get her finished leg and she was wearing the same dress as the time before when we went.
It is now a week and a half later and we went in to see the prosthetist to have her leg adjusted and also to see the doctor. We saw the prosthetist and then headed to see the doctor and they did x-rays and when they did that they found out that Sydney's new ice cream cone leg is actually 1.7 cm too short for her(which was a little satisfying to hear because I had mentioned that I thought she looked a little lopsided to the prosthetist, whom we love- don't get me wrong, and he thought it looked alright). So then after seeing the doctor we headed back over to see the prosthetist to get her fitted for a new leg. She'll probably get her new ice cream cone leg in about a week and a half.
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