Big Weekend!!!!

Greetings and a Reminder:

I write this blog as we go through ET Mehta Casting with our daughter Olivia. The blog is intended to inform, possibly inspire, and raise awareness of Infantile Scoliosis and its treatment/cure. Please share our story. For more information please check out http://www.infantilescoliosis.org/ 

Well hello!  Eight weeks already!!! Happily, it was a very uneventful cast. If you remember I was a bit worried that we were going to have problems. This was the first cast where she complained that she was itchy. That will be expected as she becomes more aware, and with the dry winter months. Otherwise we had no problems. It was a nice clean cast. 

We had a wonderful Christmas and Olivia did very well meeting Santa.

Our best Christmas present, however, was where the 8 weeks fell for a cast change. Because it's Martin Luther King weekend her cast came off on Friday and the new one will go on tomorrow! We got three whole days of tubby time, and cuddle time! It was great!

We went to Children's for 3 on Friday, and Olivia is like a pro now. She went into the cast room, had a seat on the bed and calmly laid there while the cast was removed. I was so proud of her. While we were there we ran into another casting family. Their little one was having her first cast removed. She's 10 months old. It is so great to connect with other families!

Olivia's back was pretty clean this time, not as dirty as the last cast. Her skin looked awesome, and she only had redness around her belly. The redness at the pressure point on her spine is less and less each time, which is a good sign. Her ribs and spine feel great. It is such a relief to know it's working. 

When I put her down to walk out of the cast room she made me laugh because she was swinging her torso back and forth, pleased with the freedom her upper half had. I feel badly that we'll have to put a new cast on tomorrow. She's so much more pleasant without it. Hahaha. We're at the halfway point, so the time only gets smaller from here!

After our appointment we went to visit friends where Olivia enjoyed a candle light dinner and some tubby time with her dear friend Oz.

On Saturday we celebrated Papa Rog's birthday! We have also moved on to another new adventure! Oz has been working on his potty training which then sparked an interest in Miss Olivia. Out we went to buy her a potty. Tonight we had a successful run!

We continued our cast free world tour on Sunday and headed up to see Grama and Grampa. Auntie Shan and Aliyah came over too! We are still waiting for the arrival of Olivia's new cousin. We watched the Patriots lose (Boo!), and Olivia enjoyed another tubby time with Aliyah.

We ended our fabulous weekend with a play date at E's house. 

Tomorrow we report to the hospital for 5:45 AM. With the threat of a snowy commute we'll be getting up around 4 AM. That means an early bed time for all. Fingers crossed for a safe trip, and that Olivia won't be too upset when she wakes up wearing her next cast!