Time for Autumn

The leaves are changing and the days are getting a little shorter...yes, Fall is here! :( makes me sad. But makes for great photos outdoors!!! We went to Peaks of Otter on the parkway last Sunday and it was gorgeous up there. The pic below is what we saw most of the time spent outside there! :)

Last week, I met Coreen, Liv's new PT and she is great. Seems to really know her stuff and Olivia acts comfortable around her, so that's good. We are trying kineseo tape on her foot/calf now instead of the new SFO (brace) for two weeks to see if that will correct her middle stance, if you will. They saw that she is putting all her weight on the inner part of her feet instead of the outer. The brace still looks to be uncomfortable to some extent, because Olivia is overcompensating and turning in that right foot with the brace on (to clear the floor when her toes drag so she won't trip), although it's not rubbing or too tight or anything like that. I'd rather her not wear it, if it makes her walk with difficulty, but the va prosthetics guy says that it fits good and IS doing what it's meant to do for her. We'll see what Dr Brown and Dr Kerkering say next week, too. We met with speech therapist Linda today at our home and she was impressed with how much Olivia is saying now, over 60 words I wrote down! She'll see her twice/month until she turns 3 in April. Monday the 6th was the 2 year anniversary of Liv's AVM bleed...the details of that day are not something I like to think about necessarily, but they are embedded in us now. I think of how far she's come and how blessed we are to have her here and share her life and love of life! Thank God for her and her "story" that we will share with others forever how God did a miracle that day and has a plan for her life. Please pray with us that He will continue to heal her every day. There are still a couple of gaps in that bone flap since her last surgery, we are waiting out right now to see if it'll grow back like it should as she gets older.

Anywho, Bri goes back to the doctor tomorrow and hopefully won't be wearing any more funny foot contraptions!!! I think he's gotten pretty lazy this summer b/c he didn't walk on that foot as much as usual, by no means and now he gets tired quickly :) LOL (love ya honey) 'Til next post...