Working hard

Mary Graham has been working really hard in PT the last few weeks. It's hard and painful for her and her hip is still extremely stiff. She does have more range of motion in her knee. And the picture shows her wearing her new brace to try and keep her leg straighter. She is suppose to sleep in it and wear it a couple hours a day-she doesn't love it and it's uncomfortable, but we are doing pretty good at getting her to wear it, with a little bribing involved :). She can stand for a few seconds in her walker, but not straight up yet, as she is still holding her leg up like a frog. 

She is definitely happier these days, loves to play and sleeping much better and mostly her pain is bad in the morning after she wakes up, but gets better as the day goes on usually. We are very thankful for these things.

We are going to continue on for another month or so with PT and hope her hip will loosen up, if not there are other ways (surgically) to help-we are praying that we don't have to go that route.

So, she's making some progress and seems to be a little stronger overall-it's just slow, which seems to be the theme of this recovery. Tonight in bed she asked me, "mommy, why did I have to have this hip surgery?" And I told her to help fix it. She then said, "no, why?" So, I explained more in detail that her hip was in the wrong place and the surgery was making it stronger. She's getting older and definitely asking wanting to understand more. She talks all the time about when she used to walk and when she's going to walk again-it just seems so far off at times. 

We ask you to pray for her hip to loosen and lengthen and for no more surgery to be necessary. Also, for her to continue to gain strength. Thank you for your faithfulness to pray!