It has been a while since I have posted anything, but for good reason. We really took in the spirit of the season and enjoyed our time with family and friends. Quite honestly Sadie has been in a really stable position. When I say stable; she ranks pain from 1 being nothing to 5 being the worst and she is pretty much "stable" at a three daily. I feel like we have just come to accept that as what it is, until today....
We knew that when she had the MRI it showed a cyst in her bone and we knew we would see and orthopedic surgeon to talk about what his ideas were on not only the cyst but the entire MRI. Today was that day. We talked about the cyst; we even got prepared to schedule a surgery date to remove the cyst (knowing that we had six weeks to really sit on that choice). He said it was a 50/50 shot that it would help with her day to day pain and his reasoning was that she shows a lot of active swelling. To make a long story short; the ortho doc decided at the last minute that it would be a good idea to do a new set of x rays as it has been about 18 months since the last ones. Well, the x rays showed some pretty bad news... the talon joint which is the joint that is at a 45 to 60 degree angle connecting from your leg to your foot (best way I can describe it on here) on her right side is at a 0 angle... it appears to have collapsed.
The kicker is... we have no further information. We are onto another specialist hopefully very soon. This obviously could account for her daily pain level; it could also account for some of the swelling. The internet is both a blessing and a curse in my opinion because I have spent some time reading tonight and nothing that I have found has been very fun to read. It has actually been very scary, but we are going to just wait until we hear what we hear from the next doctor.
Please pray... we could be looking at all kinds of possible situations... the unknown is a bit scary. We are pretty grateful that we have God on our side.
More soon, I am sure.
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