5 days and still no AFO

but boy, am I enjoying watching my little boy running around in TWO SHOES!  I know it won't last, and the brace will likely arrive on Monday, so it will be back to business as usual, but MAN, is it nice.  I specifically sent the brace to Cascade on Monday with the hope that it would make it back by today to minimize our time out of it.  I'm going to drop my rep at Cascade an email tonight (she won't read it before Monday, I know, but that way it's done and I don't forget) to find out what day it got shipped out.

In the meantime, learning to walk without the brace was exciting.  There was a lot of falls on Monday, a few on Tuesday, and only 1 significant one on Wednesday where he actually landed and gave himself a nice bruise.  Yesterday and today it has seemed like he's gotten the hang of walking with shoes and no external support on that right ankle.  He's getting more adventuresome though - repeatedly walking across the mulched flower beds off to the side of our driveway almost as if to prove he can - followed by shooting me a triumphant grin like "Hey Mom!  Did you see what I did?"  So cute!

Also, I sent out an email to Dr. Dobbs (of the Dobbs bar fame).  I was reviewing the one current research article on CVT that I've been able to find to see pre and post-op protocols to compare with Dr. H's, and I noticed that there was an email address attached to it.  So I went out on a limb and shot him an email with a brief synopsis of E's progress.  I'm curious about the ways that his post-op protocol differs from Dr H's, and I'm wondering if those differences are significant, or if, because we're stretching E's foot in spite of our surgeon, that should be sufficient.  So, we'll see.  I'll be sure to post back what his response is.