Alison is scheduled for her Botox injection. After playing a bit of phone tag with Dr. Hurvitz to see if we really needed to have the office appointment with him in February, which would have been to talk about doing the injection and we had already did that in October, we agreed to cancel that appointment and just go ahead and schedule the injection. I got to play a bit more phone tag with the folks at Mott, and today we got her scheduled. The earliest they could get her in is March 3, at 1:00 in the afternoon, so March 3, at 1:00 in the afternoon it will be.

We were back to see Dr. Craig again today. Luckily, we didn't have a two hour wait like we did last time. Alison's ankle is still swelling, especially if she's been really active. We showed him the sleeve that we had found and he thought it was funny that the sporting good store sent us to a drug store and that's where we found it. Dr. Craig felt around, moved Alison's foot around and came to the conclusion that she's got some chronic swelling. Since she can wear it with her brace, she's still wearing the sleeve to help with the swelling. We are moving forward with the Botox injection. He's concerned that she is rolling out a lot more when she walks and her heel cord seems to be getting tighter. The Botox will weaken the muscle. In conjunction with the Botox, she's also getting a new brace. It's going to wrap around her foot to help hold it straighter and will also have a bigger wedge on the outside to keep her from rolling out. She was casted for it today and we'll go back to get it in three weeks. Hopefully the two things together will kind of stretch things out again and make Alison's gait a little better.

Dr. Craig's office made an appointment with Dr. Hurvitz for us. The earliest they could get us in is Feb. 2. I know that Dr. Hurvitz said he wanted Alison to take a "nap" over at Mott while he did the procedure, so he won't be doing it in the office that day. We need to check and see if we really need to have this appointment or if we can just schedule the procedure.