Wednesday, November 26, 2008


Alison had another appointment with Dr. Craig today. We thought it was perfect timing. It was a professional development day, so Alison had no school. We were heading to Ohio for Thanksgiving and the doctor's office is on the way so we thought we'd be able to just pop in to the appointment and be on our way, arriving in plenty of time for dinner. That was not the case. We were in Brighton about 45 minutes early for our appointment so we decided to kill some time at Target. We got to the office 15 minutes before the appointment time and the waiting room was packed. There were at least 6 people ahead of us, still in the waiting room. Turns out they double book the appointments assuming that some patients just won't show up but everyone was showing up today. So we waited and we waited and we waited. Some people gave up and rescheduled, including a family that had come down from further north than we live. We finally got called in at 3:45, an hour and 45 minutes late. It was a quick appointment. We were out of there by 4:00. Unfortunately, we still had 3 more hours of driving ahead of us. Alison's ankle is still getting pretty swollen. He put her in another Ace wrap, which is not ideal, and said we should look for an ankle sleeve. I wouldn't have even thought they made them small enough for Alison's little foot. He told us we should look at a sporting goods store, since it's not something we'd find at a drug store. We're still waiting for this leg/ankle business to get straightened out before we talk about whether or not to do the Botox injection. We go back again in 6 weeks, so hopefully things will be better then and we'll get to discuss it. I verified that it's ok for us to be doing e-stim on Alison's leg again, which I hadn't started back up because her ankle was still swollen, and will be calling to get her back in to PT at the hospital.

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