Half way point......

Ava has now recovered from her pin site infection. We discovered afterwards that she had actually had an infection in 2 of the wounds, hence the reason why she was pretty ill and unable to move. Once the antibiotics kicked in it took around 6 days to fully recover.

We now are at the half way mark and as you'll see from the x rays below her bone has started to develop in between the 6cm break in her tibia and fibula. The first picture shows the x ray that was taken 2 days ago and the second is a comparison of the one taken 3 weeks ago vs. the most recent. So all progressing as it should.

Ava goes into hospital on Monday to have the bottom ring of her frame, which is attached to her foot, removed. This is to encourage her to weight bear and start walking with the rest of the frame still on. She'll still need to use her zimmerframe but the consultant wants her to put her foot down. The idea is that she wears a shoe on this foot but I'm not sure how likely this will be due to her foot deformity (she couldn't wear a shoe previously unless she wore a splint, but this is now impossible with the external frame on).

Anyway the fact that the bottom ring is being removed is progress and brings us another step closer to the whole frame being removed. The consultant is hoping this will happen in October, but its all dependent upon how quickly her bone heals.

After the frame is removed Ava will go into plaster cast for 6 weeks, followed by lots of intensive physio.

I've also posted an image which shows her 2 legs which are now fairly equal in length. I'll update further next week once the bottom ring is removed.