Wednesday, April 02, 2008


Alison finally had her appointment with Dr. Craig today. We were originally scheduled to go on March 12, but he had a lot of post-op patients to see that day and asked if we would be willing to postpone for a few weeks. It worked out well for us because this week is Spring Break and we didn't have anything else planned, so why not take a drive to Brighton. Today was another one of those appointments where we waited an hour to have a 10 minute appointment, but that's ok. Short appointments mean things are going well. Alison's twister cables broke about 6 weeks ago. Dr. Craig wanted to wait to have them replaced until he saw her because at her last appointment he had been contemplating not having her wear them anymore after she grew out of the current pair. I'm happy to say that we are now officially out of twister cables. Her foot turn in no longer seems to be coming out of the hip, but is instead mostly a foot problem. He mentioned the possibility of doing a tendon transfer at some point in the future, but he's on the fence about whether it will really help or not, so for now we'll just continue to keep an eye on things. He also took a look at her thumb and it's doing all right, so we won't be having another thumb surgery and she doesn't have to worry about wearing the splint anymore, either. So that was the gist of our appointment today and we'll go back again in August.