[tri-med] AFO's

A very excited Alex picked up his AFO's yesterday. He was so excited, never 
ceases to amaze me what amuses kids.
The tech was amazing. Rob still hand makes each and every set of AFO's (here in 
Australia we are just breaking into the regime of using companies to 
manufacture AFO's). There were only 3 spots that needed flaring on the first 
fitting.

He started his breaking in regime last night and wore them for an hour. At the 
end of the hour he was still excited :-)) He is so looking forward to being 
able to run, try out some roller skates etc. 

Mum on the other hand is looking forward to less sprains, strains, scrapes and 
breaks :-)) 

But I still have to deal with the practicalities <sigh>. Overnight he has gone 
from a size 3 - 4 shoe to an 8!!!! (I only wear a 7!!) So I am shopping today 
for new shoes (what happened to this weeks budget :-(  I tried getting long 
socks yesterday but it seems no one is making long socks any more :-(( let 
alone tube socks. So I guess I get to invest in a few rolls of tubigrip. 

I also need to ring the orthotist today because we ended up with a tiny sore 
after the first hours wear. Mind you he gave me permission to flare them myself 
if need be. We were talking about the dumb things people do for pressure areas 
when I mentioned people padding AFO's (or any orthotics) with foam and how 
silly that was - he laughed and said that if I was smart enough to know that 
that was a cardinal no no then he trusted me to do whatever was needed LOL

They are hinged, but at the moment the hinge is fixed until he gets used to 
them. I can undo the locking screw in a couple of weeks. 

What I am not looking forward to is him wearing them in bed!! Alex still sleeps 
with me part of the night and I can see me scoring more than a few bruises.

I have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere.
-- Unknown

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