The Only Time

So, ever since Tobyn got his cast off he has walked on his tippy toe. At first we were afraid that it might still be broken, but after a doctor visit we were told it's not broken and that he just needed some physical therapy to help strengthen those muscles again.

Yesterday was his physical therapy appointment. It went well. While talking with the physical therapist I explained that his foot had been cast at a 90 deg. angle, but the little stinker wore through the first cast so we had it re-cast. When they put the second cast on his foot was a little more relaxed and the cast hardened with his foot more pointed and he had a harder time walking in it. I took him back to the doc. and told them to look at it. They told me that it was better the way it was cast now because the muscles wouldn't get so tight and it would be easier for him to walk when he got out of the cast.

WRONG!!! The physical therapist said that it was worse the way it was re-cast because his muscle has now shrunk. That's right shrunk! It was the first time I have been disappointed by my children's pediatric physicians. They have done a wonderful job...up until now. I will still take them there, because for the past 5-6 years I have been taking the kids there, this is the only time I have been truly disappointed by a decision they have made.

Tobyn will be fine, but now we have to work on daily stretches that will lengthen and stretch those muscles so he can walk flat on his foot again. If he doesn't make good improvement in the next 2 weeks he will have to go back into a cast for a week and force those muscles to stretch out....fun....NOT!