The session went similar to the others. When the treatment was over she felt about the same as she did the past 3 days. Pain was gone from all areas of her foot except the outside of her ankle which never gets pain free. Dr D pulled up her xrays and showed us that her pain is where the hardware is from her surgery and he thinks her pain is due to that. She still has some inflammation we are working on and she needs to build her bone density back up. He’s hopeful we can get that pain lower if not completely gone with an anti inflammatory and rebuilding bone strength. Aside from the pain, Genevieve’s foot function has not been right since her surgery. She could not make the motion to compete a full step. When you take a step and your foot rolls to the ball of your foot- she had no control and no feeling at that part of the motion. She could not will her foot into doing it. She felt like she would actually fall, and you could see her start to lose her balance when she tried. Instead, she would put her weight on the outside of her foot to complete a step. At lower pain levels her walk almost looked normal when she did this. At high pain levels her foot would turn out and her limp was very pronounced. Today when we left the treatment she was in no pain except the spot where her hardware is, and she still couldn’t walk correctly. We went straight to a cafe for lunch and while we were standing in the back waiting for our name to be called we were moving out of peoples way coming in and she took a step and said “it did it!” Then she took a couple more steps and said “it’s doing it!! My foot is doing it!! It’s like it remembered how to walk! One second ago I couldn’t do it, and now I can!”
There was lots of hugging and crying and I said “keep walking!” So we went outside and I took a little video of her walking to send her dad. She was finally able to make a complete step, rolling onto the ball of her foot 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻.
Her pain free state lasted about 2 hours. We were only getting about 20 minutes pain free after the treatment the last 3 days. As the pain started coming back she said it was harder for her foot to make the correct motion again but she could push through and do it. When the pain fully came back she really couldn’t do it any more.
Then we went to a physical therapy appointment where she had hydrotherapy. The therapist gave her good exercises to do and all went well. When she got out of the pool she felt like a lot of the pain relief came back and she could walk pretty normal again. That didn’t last too long though.
We just got back to the RMD house and her foot is spasming and acting like it’s normal jerk self. BUT STUFF IS HAPPENING 🙌🏻🙏🏻💗
