So here's Little Fish's morning grin, awake 5 minutes and desperate to be out of bed and up and doing. It's hot work, sleeping in her brace and bonnet.





Or has been, until this morning, when she realised that she really actually truly absolutely was going to school today!


And so to school, and a quick handover to staff who have now had half the class go through this operation at some point or another so are thankfully all too familiar with the new caring challenges the brace and wound management present.
Room on the midday bus to bring her home, but no time to go inside; instead back onto our bus to meet friends at Millets to do a lost property and medical necessities exchange.







The rest of the afternoon passed a bit like this

And then some glueing and sticking and cutting and pasting, some reluctant eating of tea and some happier burping. A successful suppository (aren't you glad I don't photograph everything?), and finally into bed with a bit of Charlie and Lola to fall asleep by.

And a Little Fish confident and secure enough to hear our babysitter arrive, and wave me goodbye without a qualm. And unfortunately a Little Fish comfortable enough to fall asleep on her wrong side, so I will have to go in shortly and turn her over before I sleep myself.
A good day though. Nothing major, nothing hugely out of the ordinary, just life with time to enjoy it.
Tia
9 comments:
Love the pics...good day all round! Can't beat a Millets Farm picnic!
Very exciting day LF ;o) Glad to see you are getting around and having some fun, even in the brace.
Hugs,
Laura
now, i understand the reasons for removal of my comment, but leaving it like that makes everyone else think I wrote something really awful lol!!
Only if you have a guilty conscience!
I don't know why it left that message, it normally just vanishes the comment. Sorry!
Tia
what sort of brace is that? Celyn will need hip surgery and we want to avoid the awful smelly plaster cast one.
Our surgeon calls it a Toronto Brace but the orthotists tell me it's actually a Maple Leaf Brace. It still has to stay in situ for a minimum of 6 weeks so it does still get smelly, but you can open up the different sections of it to change liners and check for skin breakdown.
Tia
What a lovely day! LF is amazing and you have done so well with her. Love the brace!
Well, it was a lovely day until the end!
If she needs suppositories often, I have a Yahoo Group you may be interested in
health.groups.yahoo.com/group/suppository_moms
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