Inverted ankles

That's one original title, if I do say so myself, eh?

I always find it difficult to write again after writing a post that I really like. I just want this post to stay up at the top forever. Plus I know what I'm going to write about today can't sound so beautiful. Well, it probably could, but I can't make that happen.

But anyway...

so today I had to take Quinn to the foot doctor, because he's been complaining about his inserts (you can read more about this here) and we had them adjusted, but still, he's been complaining.

After an hour wait, that's right, one entire hour - half in the waiting room the other half in the exam room, but all with an almost 2 year old and a 4 and a half year old - anyway, after an hour wait we finally saw the doctor.

Two things:

Quinn's heel/foot/ankle still hasn't straightened itself out yet, which usually happens by now. Surgery is a possibility. They don't talk about surgery until after a child is 4, because they want to wait to see if it fixes itself. Quinn is four and a half.

As for now, we have to go to the insert making doctor and have some soft inserts made. Now that Quinn is older, and can actually run and jump more like a kid and less like a toddler, the inserts are probably too hard on his feet. The doctor would like me to have him wear his hard inserts as often as possible, but when he's out playing and jumping around to have him wear the soft ones. I think the doctor only had girls, because trust me, even when I think Quinn is just going to be playing nice and calm, he's running and jumping at least part of the time.

So the surgery. Yeah. After 3 months we're going to go back to this doctor to have some x-rays taken and talk about the possibility of surgery. I'm not freaking out yet. Ask me again in July.