{"id":1517,"date":"2011-02-01T23:25:08","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T04:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.handsful.com\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2011-02-01T23:27:23","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T04:27:23","slug":"first-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1517","title":{"rendered":"First Step"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dylan – look closely, you can see his holding his little foot.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, we took our first step in the journey to help Dylan WALK. \u00c2\u00a0Our appointment at Shriner’s was at 9am…not too early, unless you factor in that we live more than 2 hours away from Greenville, SC. \u00c2\u00a0Getting up before the sun does is just wrong! \u00c2\u00a0I guess I’m spoiled.<\/p>\n

So the big kids could focus on their school assignments, we brought both Dylan and Lainey. \u00c2\u00a0I had to drive, following Randy in his company car, since he had a meeting scheduled in Columbia right after our appointment and then he was driving on to meetings in Atlanta for the next few days.<\/p>\n

Our day was spent registering as new patients and seeing different doctors, radiologists, nurses, and others. \u00c2\u00a0During our visit, we learned that the SC Shriner’s sees about 300 limb difference patients each year. \u00c2\u00a0And, at no cost to the patients. \u00c2\u00a0Amazing, and a blessing.<\/p>\n

Every time we entered a new room, Dylan would shed new tears. \u00c2\u00a0We’ve come to expect this when we’re in any type of “doctor” environment. \u00c2\u00a0Usually, he’s fairly easily consoled when we can convince him there are no “owies” coming.<\/p>\n

The x-ray showed that he does not have a working knee – only cartilage. \u00c2\u00a0We weren’t expecting anything more, honestly. \u00c2\u00a0Their plan is to amputate through the “knee” and fit him with a prosthesis. \u00c2\u00a0Surgery should be sometime in the spring – maybe April. \u00c2\u00a0We did learn that, with children this age, they cast the leg post-surgery for about 3-4 weeks to protect the leg as it heals. \u00c2\u00a0Oh joy. \u00c2\u00a0Another cast EXACTLY like the one he just got out of.<\/p>\n

We’re waiting to hear from the surgery coordinator regarding an actual surgery date. \u00c2\u00a0It’s hard to look that far ahead – Lainey has her next surgery February 23rd. \u00c2\u00a0We told Shriner’s that we wanted the month of March off!<\/p>\n

Our challenge now is to somehow communicate to Dylan what’s coming…he loves his little leg. \u00c2\u00a0And, it makes me very sad to think of him losing it. \u00c2\u00a0Thankfully, we have friends here with a daughter that went through the exact same thing. \u00c2\u00a0We plan on taking our cues from them on preparing Dylan, not to mention tons of prayer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dylan – look closely, you can see his holding his little foot. Yesterday, we took our first step in the journey to help Dylan WALK. \u00c2\u00a0Our appointment at Shriner’s was at 9am…not too early, unless you factor in that we live more than 2 hours away from Greenville, SC. \u00c2\u00a0Getting up before the sun does […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yu-hai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}