I am happy to report that Molly is doing extremely well and is almost back to her old self. We haven't even needed to give her pain medication throughout the day today. She amazes me with her ability to bounce back so quickly. She is crawling everywhere and is even standing for seconds at a time. We went and saw her orthopedist yesterday and told us not to encourage any standing quite yet. We're going back in a week to take new X-Rays to make sure things are healing well and then we should be able to begin working on standing and walking again.
Thank goodness things improved after our long night on Saturday.
We think we have officially decided that a power wheelchair is the right choice for Molly. We met with her PT and a wheelchair vendor yesterday and she tried out a couple of the chairs. I wasn't sure what to expect Molly to be capable of doing, but she blew me away. It took her a little while and she couldn't maneuver or anything elaborate, but she definitely got the idea that if she pushed the joystick forward the chair went forward. I wheeled around in a manual chair and made a game of it for her to chase after me, which worked very well. It is so exciting to think that she could be independently mobile out in public! Yikes!! Very exciting stuff.
We took some brief videos and will upload them when we get a chance. They will be dropping off a chair for us to demo for two weeks in October. We will have to work on building her skills so that we can demonstrate to the insurance company that a power chair is appropriate and she is capable of operating it herself.
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