Doctor updates

We went to the orthopedic doctor on Monday due to our concern that Maggie was not moving with her cast. The doctor thought she was probably still in pain and thus the reason she was not putting weight on her leg. Later that evening, Maggie pushed her casted foot against Andy with no pain, so we are pretty sure that it is an intimidation problem. She still is not putting any weight on her foot, but thankfully she is crawling and moving around again. We doubt she will ever put weight on her casted foot, but hopefully it won't be casted much longer as we go back in on Monday to have her 2 week follow-up. The doctor said he would be taking off her cast and getting an x-ray on it. Hopefully it will be healed and Maggie will again gain her strength (and confidence back).

On Tuesday we visited our new specialty doctor, the dermatologist. Unfortunately, as we were getting ready to go, Maggie's big blister popped and we lost most of the fluid by the time the doctor saw her. I did bring the picture to give them a full view and they were able to recover a little bit to test for a staph infection. The visit was rather fast and what he thinks it is, I'm not entirely sure. He did give us an antibiotic cream to put on the open blisters to protect her. He also said that some people have big reactions to mosquito bites or it could be a response to her medications. Basically, we have another appointment in October to see how she is doing and the plan is for her to be off of the medications that might be causing her skin sensitivity. One thing that was of comfort to us was that he has seen blisters like that before, so we could relieve our minds of any "R" scares.

We have Maggie's monthly clinic appointment on Monday. Like every other month, we are nervous about this appointment and Maggie's count check. In the past 3 months, we have had counts checked every 2 weeks and this time it has been a month. I am very worried, for no other reason, but to worry for what could be. We have several end-of-summer plans that we are waiting to confirm until we get Maggie's counts. Please pray that Maggie's numbers continue to show us that she is completely healed of cancer.