Our 6 week post op

As you've read. Things have not been going as well as we would have liked for them to go. So started our day on Wednesday, October 15th.

We went to therapy. Twenty minutes of screaming and crying and coaxing and getting into her face to just get her to bend to 80 degrees. We still had our follow-up later in the afternoon.

We left for our day around noon. Made our first stop at Kathy's Pies in CR. A must stop for anyone the next time you're in CR! Then headed down to IC for our shopping prior to our appointment.

When we arrived they had us do a set of x-rays, which told me that Dr. Wolf had received my letter regarding our concern of the severe inward rotation. After the exam he told us that her bones and structure looked fine. There is still the considerable inward rotation from her hip, but he felt that the rotation we were seeing was because of the lack of quad muscle usage. We could not get her quads to "fire" or tighten. What an answer to prayer. This can be fixed with no surgery. So, he also decided to have her walk with the ability to bend that knee to natural spark the quads. We will also be doing electric stimulation on the quads. But, the biggest answer to prayer was how God used Dr. Wolf to help Sherrianne's fear. He told her she can't hurt her knee. She is in control of how good or bad the therapy goes and that the longer it takes the longer she's in the brace. Her whole demeanour changed when she realized, she had control over her knee and that the knee didn't have control over her. I felt 100 pounds lighter and felt like I was going to be her cheerleader now and not the task driver.

She been walking great and really enjoying bending her knee. Today is our PT appointment. This is our last hurdle. I know we will come through with flying colors because I have prayed that God's angel will encamp around the building, around us and even around the bed that she will be doing her therapy on.

Praise GOD for HIS faithfulness!

Wendy

Our week

This week has been filled with so much emotion and pain that it's hard to really want to relive it.

Sherrianne's therapy has not gone well at all. We're very concerned that if it doesn't get better then it will just continue to get harder and harder. We go down to Iowa City on the 15th. I'm praying Dr. Wolf has some ideas that will give us some other focus.

Please pray for me. I'm struggling--this is very hard for me.

Thank you.

Wendy

A week of ups and downs

First, let me apologize. I have been challenged since the death of Phyllis Roth not to grumble or complain. I want people to see my life as a radiant witness for Christ. It has been very challenging for me. I pray you don't feel that I am complaining, I just want everyone to understand our lives so they can pray better for us.

Our first major prayer concern is her knee. The swelling has increased and we have some major bruising going on. So, we're back to our toes above our nose, which is extremely hard for a 7 year old. We're not sure what has caused it or why but we're back to dealing with things as we did in the beginning. So please pray that the bruising and swelling would come down. When the swelling is there that's pain and we so far have been able to control the pain with Ibuprofen--but she did need a Darvaset last night.

Secondly, please pray for both Sherrianne and I for emotional and mental strength. As I've mentioned before this surgery has been much more of a mental/emotional healing than anything. Sherrianne very much internalize things and through our different breakdowns we've been able to help her through them and understand that it's okay everything she is feeling. Thankfully, we've learned to start trying to draw her out on a daily basis--hopefully we will be able to help her learn to express herself more freely.

Thirdly, we are still battling with the insurance company and the bills are coming in. Pray for wisdom for us!!

Thank you all for asking and caring for us! We praise God daily for our family!

Love,
Wendy