2nd week at Heartline

Everything here at the clinic is going great. We had to put a cast on Amanda who was starting to walk, but the doctors decided that her femur wasn't healing properly and that it needed to be in a cast. Cliff the PA that was here made an awesome cast, be casted below the knee and then above the knee and then attached the two with hinges so Amanda can still bend her leg at the knee. I have been working with her at that, just getting her to try and move her leg and doing lots of passive movements, she has quite a bit of swelling in leg and knee and I am hoping getting some of her muscles moving will help to pump out the swelling.

Antoinette who had her leg amputated below the knee is doing amazing! Just a week ago she was only putting 20 lbs on her prosthetic leg and and today she went up to 80lbs she only weighs 100 so she is almost perfect! Today instead of doing the usual walking between benches that we set up as parallel bars she decided she wanted to try some stairs. I took to her to the back of the clinic where there is a set of stairs to the roof and we made our way up. She made it all the way without any help. She was even switching witch leg would go first up the next stair which should really help with her balance and strength. We walked around a bit on the roof and then came back down. She was getting really tired on the way down but she did it no problem! She is doing very well and should be going home soon, well to what used to be her home, you can read more about her story here.

Its been a really great couple of days everyone is doing so well and I'm very excited to see how much more progress well make!