Hip Dysplasia has not beaten us.
Time is a curious thing.
This time a year ago I was filled to the brim with anxiety, I paced the hospital corridors biting my nails waiting for my one year old daughter to return from theatre with her legs bound in spica to correct Hip Dysplasia.
Look at us now, I barely recongnise my daughter. Free from cast, learning to run when we have just mastered walking, tentatively treading on a trampoline cautionously trying to work out how to jump.
She is not quite fixed but she is no longer broken.
Her mobility is less than that of most her age, she prefers to see the world from the height of my arms and for now that is fine, I am not in a rush to see her growing up and dashing away from me.
She has physio to try and correct the legacy of spica which has left her with limited mobility in her left hip and a total inflexibility in rotation of her surgically healed bones. Physio has left her with a love of swimming in hot pools and a dread of the council’s icy Olympic sized bath.
I never take walking for granted, every step she makes, every wiggle, every time she runs into my arms I close my eyes and see her laying on a bed, pale, exhausted and trapped by a cast. Then I let the warmth cut through me and cuddle my determined little girl and pray that this journey she is taking is close to an end.
Twelve months on – look how far we have come!
Huge thanks to Emma at mummymummymum for making my video!
Yay!! Gosh what a journey you’ve all had. She’s done so well. As has her very strong mummy xx May 2013 be completely your year!!
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She’s done so well and so have you! Go Libs! Xxx
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Just wonderful! : )
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Love this. Our girls are always my inspiration when I have a crap day.
Much love to the gorgeous BB.
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right back at ya x
lovely video – what a difference a year makes eh xxx
She is your absolute DOUBLE by the way!
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I know – poor lamb!
What a beautiful video, good luck Libby Sue xxx
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ta muchly x
Wow Jane! That’s fabulous, what a star! Brilliant video too, that Emma is a clever woman!
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she is I am eternally greatful!
Great to hear a good news story out here at the moment. She is a ray of sunshine which comes across on the video.
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She can also be a stroppy little mare – but we dont blog about that! x
Yay!!
We were discharged last month after 12w in a pavlik harness, 6m in spica, 6m in night brace, 6 weekly check up from 7w old until 13m, 6 monthly check ups for 2 years and then annual check ups until 7 years!!
Blimey and wow and yeah!!!!
That’s pretty damn awesome! Our children are strong and it’s often we adults who are the weak ones. But you’ve beaten all the odds and are making great progress.
CJ x
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Thanks CJ x
Awww what a beautiful video. It’s amazing what we take for granted in our own lives. To see her walking and then on to running must be an amazing feeling. And she looks SO like you Jane. Beautiful girl.
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she is a stunner, dont know where she gets it from!
Just so happy that the agony was worth the results.
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Me too – now if we could get rid of the limp….
Great she’s making such a good recovery; she seems like a really happy little girl
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she is a star!
Gorgeous girl. Proud of our girls. Welling up now… x
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Well that brought a tear to my eye – well done Libby Sue, and well done YOU. Wonderful video – and what a f**cking year you’ve had! X.
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it has been ‘different’
Well done, and just think when you look back in another twelve months what improvements you will see.
Lord I do hope so!
I’m so, so happy to read this. Fantastic!
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Thanks lovely lady