Time flies, and it drags, LOL. I cannot believe it's been 3 months to the date when Billy's fixator was put on! Yet, it's almost hard to imagine life without it, sigh. However, that said, we are pretty much finished the hard part of our task, yesterday's doc appointment showed that we have gained 5.8cm of new bone and significant progress in turning Billy's foot to line up with his knee better. We have one last week of turns to try and gain some extra correction of the outward foot rotation and then we are done with turning and can start the "healing" phase and let that new bone consolidate.

Initially, there was concern about how well Billy's leg would be able to do this, since he has osteopenia in that leg (low bone density, but not as bad as osteoporosis) and with his lack of muscle and a missing artery in the lower left leg to support optimal blood flow and promote healing. However, according to the doc yesterday, the new bone is growing "like gangbusters" and he's worried it will be too dense to get as much turning in this next week as he'd like, hahaha... this is a GOOD thing, he will need another lengtheing in the future (hopefully with an INTERNAL fixator) and any correction we don't get now can be addressed later on. Healing better and faster than expected is an acceptable complication!