Lame-O

ok.

So I said I would produce some pics of JouJou cruising around in her braces.

But her colorful wraps have not arrived in the mail yet. She ran out of them a few days ago and when the new ones come in, I'll wrap her up and take a few shots.

For now, she is in plain white bandages half the time and nothing the rest of the time.

Here's a picture of her in her casts....before the braces were ordered.

She got the hang of those pretty quickly, with a little help from that cool harness for lifting her to her feet.

And for those of you who hung around to read this,

Here's a picture of Barry Bonds hanging out at Michael's school.

Michael has his dog for training because he was recommended to Barry by pretty much everyone in the sport of Mondio Ring. It's pretty awesome.

More to come!

JouJou

So, the last time I spoke about JouJou she was recovering from a brain biopsy. After all the tests they concluded that she has an unidentified inflammatory disease in her brain.

So they started her on Predisolone....a steroid.

And after a couple of weeks of a very small dose, whatever was in her head, shrunk. She can see again and is full of energy, as if nothing happened.

Unfortunately she started running around with all of her energy and we had no idea that the steroids had damaged her soft tissue. And she ruptured BOTH of her Achilles tendons! She couldn't walk on her back legs.

This is a picture of her right leg. You can see the lump in the middle of the flappy tendon. That's where she tore it.

Here's her left leg. Just as ugly.

She spent a couple of weeks in soft casts with splints inside. Then she was fitted for braces.

It's the only way she can walk.

I'll get a pic of her in her tomorrow in her braces.

We are waiting for a month or so to make sure nothing in her brain returns now that she is off the steroids. And hoping that she can heal her tendons herself in the meantime.

If she cannot then she must have surgery on each leg to fuse the ankle in a standing position.

Not ideal, but it'll be better than brace for the rest of her life.

The New Old Blog

There's so much to catch up on!

But I will not panic and shut down completely, I will go one step at a time, day by day.

Today is Tuesday April 27th.

I have to tell you about:

*JouJou's progress.

*Michael's Competition.

*Carol's theatre work.

*Our new devotion to CrossFit training.

*This

*That

*The other thing.

Woo Hoo it's gonna be fun.

But now I'm tired.....

The Test

Does this work with my mac now?