Life Without the Brace

Mackenzie was loving her new found freedom of not having to wear the brace.  Within a few days she started really army crawling her way around.   Eventually she started getting up on her hands and knees and rocking but whenever she had somewhere to go she pulled with her arms and pushed off her toes army style.

We went swimming a lot as we weren't able to do it with the brace and definitely would not be able to with the spica cast, we went for lots of long walks and just got out and about as much as possible.  We also made sure for her to wear all her cute summer outfits that she wouldn't be able to wear with the cast :)

We got the call the closed reduction would be done on June 21st only just over 2 weeks from our last appointment as someone had cancelled and they had an earlier opening. This made it real. It really meant Mackenzie would be in a Spica cast.

We hugged her and snuggled her as much as she would let us prior to the appointment. She was so happy to be free and moving about, it broke our heart that she had no idea what was coming up and that that freedom would be taken away.