Annie PT Update: Cheerily Victorious

I haven't written about Annie much lately. She had a really good session of PT last week. In fact, it was her best one since her injury in August. Turns out that the injury was indeed a fracture at the same place that her knee was fused to the thigh oh-so-long ago. The wire that's been in her bone kept the leg together. The x-ray showed the wire bent, but did not break and that the bone's fracture was so small as to be known only to Annie at the time and x-rays several weeks later after healing had begun. These days she's hopping and climbing without her prosthesis as if nothing had happened. With her prosthesis, she's a little less certain. Yesterday, we took her in to see her prosthetician, Mr. Tony, and he did his creative magic to buy us a little more time on this leg. Annie's grown quite a bit since he first fashioned the leg, but most of the growth has been vertical. So he added a little length and filled the interior of her prosthetic with some foam to help give her a more snug fit. We're happy about the progress and glad that the kid is so remarkable and determined.