Update.....

Update on Little Miss. So, we got an appointment with an Orthopedic surgeon today, thanks to Auntie Em. I get Brielle on the bus today, and Josh and I both looked at her and said “Hmm She looks pretty good this morning!” She came home from school and got off the bus pretty much by herself, yet again another improvement. We came inside did some painting, ate lunch and watched the Sandlot til her 230 appointment. Get her out of the car for her Ortho appointment and she asks to walk. I let her as we had some time to spare and she says “Watch me run mom.” I grab her alittle to stabalize her expecting her to fall and the little turd takes off across the parking lot. Not a fast full out run, but a RUN to HER. I was amazed and thought REALLY? I made all this fuss to get this appt on short notice and you go from crawling last night to RUNNING today!??!?!?!? YAY but WTH! So we get to the room and I make her run to wall to wall. Run to chair to chair. Now do a circle. Now do a plank. Now touch your nose. “Really mom??!?!” Yes really Brielle. Im still confused. Help me out here! The doctor comes in and I am speechless. I feel like a horses butt and dont really know what to tell her. Except I dont know this child. I show her my video from last night and show her how she WAS. She did see the problem I was presenting but looking at the child in the room she didnt know her either. So we both agreed that She just really likes doctor appointments and making her mother bald by the time she is 5 and I will call if she regresses. Get home have dinner, she goes running into the living room after giving her dad a goodbye kiss for work and she trips and falls. She starts screaming and crying like she broke something. This went on for a good 15 minutes. Dad got her to walk on it before he cleared the scene but she wouldnt stop fussing. After an hour of telling me it hurt and still whining, not full cry, I got a call from her teacher. Her teacher, who I adore, is super sweet and caring. She had some concerns, and I have the same ones. Shes always looking for ways to help and better the child its just amazing. I told her how I am completely lost and not really sure what to do, say, think or go from here. She was just bouncing off the walls at the specialist doc 3 hours ago, and now shes laying on the floor moaning and icing her foot. WTH! I give and call her old Birth to 3 therapist Lisa, who lives just around the corner from us. She is super super sweet and knows Brielle like the back of her hand. Seriously! She is the one who suggested casting as well. She of course came over right away to look at Brielle. She said that she has no get up in her feet. Meaning when we can just put our foot flat, push up and get up, Brielle has to use her hand to push her leg down into the floor to get up. A lot more work than you and I. Her legs are mush. She has hardly any leg muscles left. So she is tightening her ankles to compensate, she IS the master compensater you knnow?, thus causing her ankles to be tight and turn inwards to compensate. MAKES TOTAL SENSE NOW! No fracture. Just no muscles. Weak little fragile body trying to work way way hard to do things that she has the right to do....be a kid. She also noticed that Brielle had a major growing spurt so her orthodics were small. The toe piece was not long enough so where her toes should have been hiting was back by the foot part of her toes causing her toes to curl up, thus causing pain on the top of her foot due to her foot being pushed up into the orthodic causing sores and probably bruising on the foot/bone causing the foot pain! (hows that for a run on sentence!) She fixed her orthodics so I hope we can alleviate some of that pain until her new ones come on Monday. SOOOOO She said LOTS of strength training. She says “get her in water therapy!” TADA! She starts tomorrow!!! Our goal is to get her into as much water as possible. Tayvah is going to learn to like swimming sooner than later :) Its a good thing Brielle likes water this year, Last year she wouldnt go near it. She would go in that water kicking or screaming, which kicking is a great strength building so it wouldnt be so bad :) Tough love. Just kidding, well sort of. So thats what I got. Atleast it is alittle bit more of some answers. I feel more at ease knowing that this is a weakness issue and not an injury. I do feel awful that it took us this long to figure it out, but I cant take that back now. All we can do is move forward and body build this child!