Friday, December 17, 2010

How Tys is doing


It's been four weeks since the cast came off.
He started walking about 2 weeks after it came off, which we were really happy about!
But we took him to see the Doctor yesterday, because he's been limping on it and not using his foot right.
They did another X-ray (which Tys did not like too much..). And thankfully his femur looks great! It's totally healed up and you can't even see it was ever broke.
The problem and the reason he's limping is because his foot/ankle muscles are still a little stiff. So all we have to do is do some stretches every day with his foot. He doesn't like it, but it's going to work and he's going to be walking much better!
We're very happy we don't have to take him to therapy. In four weeks we're going to see the Doctor one more time! Wow, it's been quite a deal! I hope that we never have to go through something like it again, it's no fun!!!

Some more great news is that my younger sister (Elbrich) had her last major check up last week. For those of you who don't know, she had a tumor (on her sacrum-lower back) when she was 9. She's had chemo and radiation. It was a long road!
On Sunday she turned 16! And just two days before that they heard that she's still cancer free and everything looks great! And because it's been five years now, she doesn't have to do all the scans and check ups anymore!
We are so enormously grateful for this. Praise God!!!

1 comment:

kwaterman said...

That is terrific news! We hope you all have a splendid Christmas, and that you ( Anne-Maria) are feeling well. Our whole crew is rejoicing that Tys is getting back to normal.. We'd love to touch base with you sometime soon. Give him a kiss for us.

By the way, you do a great job with this blog, Rudi and Anne.

Merry Christmas to all,

Kelly Waterman ( and the rest of the family :)