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give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world.
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Monday, July 19, 2010. Posted by Ally {mtm} at 2:33 PM. It's been forever since I posted. On the 7 th. Of June and was so so brave. The anaesthetist was running late and Isla. Was the 5 th. Kid on the list so didn't go under until 1pm, she was SO hungry, poor little mite. Hamstrings and calves injected {one day I'll actually learn the proper names of the muscles}. She was pretty nauseas. We have a long term wheelchair trial at the hospital on the 26th, which I am pretty apprehensive about. I have no ...
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give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world.: August 2009
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Thursday, August 13, 2009. Posted by Ally {mtm} at 2:40 PM. We've been busy little bees around these parts lately. Here's the latest on Miss Isla. We saw Dr L on Tuesday, the Botox Dr. He's still happy with her progress although she is beginning to tighten up again - particularly in the hamstrings. He's stressed that she really needs to break her W sitting habit, because if she continues, she will no doubt require some sort of hip surgery in the future :(. We saw the Paediatrician too. He's given us ...
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give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world.: "The kids want to know...
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Thursday, April 29, 2010. The kids want to know. Posted by Ally {mtm} at 12:20 PM. Why Isla has wobbly legs". This is how my walk to school went this morning. I think it's the first time that someone has ever asked me that question. Most of the time I think people wait for me to offer up an explanation. She has Cerebral Palsy" I replied. I don't know how much information to give. Do I leave it at CP or do I go on about how she got it, where she's affected, what the future holds for her? I would far rathe...
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give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world.: December 2009
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009. Posted by Ally {mtm} at 11:50 AM. Friday, December 18, 2009. Posted by Ally {mtm} at 1:20 PM. Two big things have happened this week. 1 Miss Isla has graduated Kindy (! 2 The best news of all, physio has told us NOT to wear her AFO's (until February at least! And Isla does NOT have to go into plaster following last months Botox! Isla's calves aren't doing too bad, they're now more concerned about her hamstrings, so it means no AFO's during the day - just normal shoes! My place...
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give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world.: Poo talk, funding denial and wheelchairs. What a day.
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010. Poo talk, funding denial and wheelchairs. What a day. Posted by Ally {mtm} at 9:59 PM. Isla had an appointment with Dr L today to review her kidney ultrasound and abdo xrays from 2 weeks ago. Background to these tests, Isla had incontinence following Botox last November - cause unknown, but suspected Botox spreading from injection site. Dr L hadn't had any reported cases of this and was quite perplexed and concerned, hence the tests. Why is this so difficult? She does, though, have...
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give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world.: March 2010
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Saturday, March 27, 2010. Posted by Ally {mtm} at 4:01 PM. It's been so long since I've updated Isla's blog. She's had a few OT appointments lately, all going really well. Mel the OT seems to be quite happy with her progress, and hopefully she'll be picked up through the local hospital's OT intake sometime very soon. We've been given some finger stretching exercises for her to complete, as she's having a bit of trouble holding pencils, but otherwise, it's all hunky dory. We need to organise a kidney ultr...
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give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world.: November 2010
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010. Posted by Ally {mtm} at 8:02 PM. Was it really July when I last posted on here? Isla's tone is starting to increase now, it's been 5 months since Botox, but her measurements remain quite good. It's hard to see her walking up on her toes again though, it's quite noticeable at the moment. Turned out to be nothing to do with a spider, but an infected throat. Little poppet is aok now. At the end of September Isla lost her first tooth, and now has another wiggly one! I'm thinking ...
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give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world.: Squeaky wheel gets the oil.
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Monday, April 26, 2010. Squeaky wheel gets the oil. Posted by Ally {mtm} at 7:40 PM. Back in December 2009 I got fed up with the lack of services etc available to Isla. I think it would have been around the time I was trying to sort out an aide for her schooling, and trying to be able to pay for the bulk of it myself. I sent an email to Nicola Roxon, Minister for Health. It's down below if you want to read it {it's the same babble that I've been going on with here though}. She {or her representative writ...
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give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world.: Hmmm.
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010. Posted by Ally {mtm} at 10:28 PM. So, the Spastic Centre called me today, and asked me if Isla was going to go to the Gym group. Last year we had an "assessment" with TSC who thought Isla would like their group - which consisted of similarly able children who get together of an afternoon at 3.45pm and do dancing, stretching, games etc. We're not offered OT or Physio through them. We were offered a speech assessment which Isla "passed" with flying colours. She's never ha...I kno...
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give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world.: November 2009
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Monday, November 30, 2009. I could kiss the inventor of General Anaesthetic! Posted by Ally {mtm} at 8:58 PM. I was filled with fear and trepidation of what lay ahead, if last time. Was anything to go by. To my utter surprise, everything today was easy and straight-forward. She was excited to be there from the get-go. I was concerned that going back to the ward would bring back all those memories of the last time we were there, but apparently not. She didn't remember it at all. Orthotics were fixed, and ...
