Last week, Mom and I took the kids to Philly to restart Olivia's castings.
Her feet have regressed quite a bit. Dr vanBosse said he usually recasts yearly, but I didn't want to wait til the middle of July to start castings again. I wanted to get it over with before the summer so the kids could enjoy the pool and Olivia could swim and not be stuck on the side of the pool like last summer.
Olivia did so well with her castings. So much better than last year. She was afraid and cried before they even started, but once they did start she wasn't screaming too badly. It did help to have fer siblings consoling her too.
Also, they are putting some kind of blue fabric underneath the cast, on the side, so the saw doesn't bother them when they take the casts off, it really helps!!
Dr vanBosse did seem a little discouraged on the regression of her feet. He said she has very active muscles.......I guess that can be good or bad.....
The thing about AMC is that it is a "watch and see" process. All the treatments, surgeries, castings.....is all dependant on how Olivia's feet and legs will do over time.
Dr vanBosse said that sometimes kids feet will do better after the second casting and not regress so much,
sometimes they need them yearly until their growing slows, and sometimes kids need muscle tranfers to help with the over active muscles.
Again, we won't know if Olivia will need the transfers for quite a while, we will just wait and see how she does over the next few years.
Olivia and I will go back next Friday and stay the weekend to have two castings done.
Last year Olivia and I were going up weekly, she would be casted on Friday and we would come back so I could work the weekend. Now that I'm not working weekends anymore, she will be casted on Friday and Monday. Hopefully we will only have two more trips........again,
it all depends on how her feet respond......
Here are some pics of our week.
One of the planes Amelia Earhart flew
The Wright Brothers plane
The Hot air balloon we went on.
Chase, not wanting to look down.....
Finally he stood up.....
Photo bombed by the Crocodile.....
The next day we drove west towards Reading, PA. My mom has been doing a lot of research on her family ancestry and found that a great grandfather (x8) lived here and his son had built this house back in 1753. It was really cool to see, there is a building (workshop) that is becoming a National Treasure on the property. It is amazing to me that these buildings were built over 250 years ago and are still standing strong. Our ancestors who lived here were German, so these buildings are of German design and architecture.
This is the National Treasure building, I think he said it was used for wood carving.....
Look how big this fireplace is.....
This is a tile from the roof, he was explaining to the kids why it looked like this......
This is what was probably used as a parlor, the opening in the wall came from the fireplace in the previous picture, this is just the back side of it. It would have had a wood burning stove attached to the hole to heat the room.
This is where they stored their vegetables.......for 6-9 MONTHS!!!!!
And we can't even get a week out of our vegetables these days........
This is from the back side of the property looking up towards the road.
We then drove towards Lancaster to see the Amish country and have dinner, it was beautiful!
This is a graveyard that one of my great grandmothers (x8 or 9) was buried in. She came over as part of the French Huguenots and was told by the Queen that she would have land here. However, because she was a women (her husband had died) she was refused the land for years.
Finally, she got her land and before she died chose this certain place to be buried at.
Yes, we walked around a graveyard in the dark, and no we didn't see any ghosts.
This is how awesome my kids are!!
They love their little sister SO much!!
I told them I was getting up early (6AM) to take Olivia to her appointment and then we would come back, pack up, and leave......
They all said they wanted to go with us.
I was so surprised they didn't want to sleep....
Nope they all wanted to go and be there for Olivia, because they know how much she hates getting the casts.
Ella and Taylor feeling the 6 AM wakeup.....
On the way up we stopped in DC and went to the Air and Space Museum
On Saturday we went to the Philadelphia Zoo with a friend and her two daughters. Connie and I met at Shriner's in January, we both noticed each others Chinese daughters and had to stop and talk ;-) ......she lives up here and had said to call whenever we're here and we could get the girls together.
It was so nice of her to take us to the zoo, the kids had a blast!
The next day we drove west towards Reading, PA. My mom has been doing a lot of research on her family ancestry and found that a great grandfather (x8) lived here and his son had built this house back in 1753. It was really cool to see, there is a building (workshop) that is becoming a National Treasure on the property. It is amazing to me that these buildings were built over 250 years ago and are still standing strong. Our ancestors who lived here were German, so these buildings are of German design and architecture.
This is the National Treasure building, I think he said it was used for wood carving.....
Look how big this fireplace is.....
This is a tile from the roof, he was explaining to the kids why it looked like this......
This is where they stored their vegetables.......for 6-9 MONTHS!!!!!
And we can't even get a week out of our vegetables these days........
This is from the back side of the property looking up towards the road.
We then drove towards Lancaster to see the Amish country and have dinner, it was beautiful!
This is a graveyard that one of my great grandmothers (x8 or 9) was buried in. She came over as part of the French Huguenots and was told by the Queen that she would have land here. However, because she was a women (her husband had died) she was refused the land for years.
Finally, she got her land and before she died chose this certain place to be buried at.
Yes, we walked around a graveyard in the dark, and no we didn't see any ghosts.
This is how awesome my kids are!!
They love their little sister SO much!!
I told them I was getting up early (6AM) to take Olivia to her appointment and then we would come back, pack up, and leave......
They all said they wanted to go with us.
I was so surprised they didn't want to sleep....
Nope they all wanted to go and be there for Olivia, because they know how much she hates getting the casts.
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