5.5cm but minor set back

Ava's gap in her bones has now reached 5.5cm. From looking at the x-ray below it is unbelievable that she has that level of break in both her tibia and fibula and doesn't complain and can still move around (albeit with the aid of a zimmerframe). This truly is an amazing procedure.

At today's hospital visit we were told that Ava's leg is starting to bow slightly. This is something that you don't want to happen during lengthening so the consultant has had to alter the rest of our program to try and do the remaining 0.5cm in length while rotating the bones so that they are correctly aligned. We won't know until the next x-ray in 2 weeks whether this has been successful or not. It's important that it is done now though before the new bone has started to harden.

To be honest we think this is only a minor setback and hopefully can be corrected. Things have been going well with Ava as she has not picked up a pin site infection and is generally (over the past few weeks) been coping well. So I suppose it was inevitable that something would crop up to complicate things slightly.

Lets hope in 2 weeks time that her leg is straight and we can then concentrate on letting the new bone heal.

Have also included a picture of Ava on her swing in the garden so you can see how determined she is for life to carry on as normal. I'm not a big fan of her doing this with a huge break in her bones, but it keeps her happy.