Tonight's picture was taken in April of 2009. You maybe asking yourself..... what am I looking at? Well this was Mattie's right leg in a cast. Though Mattie had limb salvaging surgery on this leg in October, Mattie was never able to truly walk, stand, or straighten this leg. The leg seemed permanently bent at the knee. Part of the issue was Mattie wasn't able to do physical therapy post surgery to return to having a functioning leg. Because of his chemotherapy treatments, constantly feeling weak, and not being able to use crutches (since he had limb salvaging surgeries on each of his arms), there was never a time to rehabilitate the leg. Therefore it became bent. The goal of casting the leg was to straighten it back out. Unfortunately that never worked. But as you can see both Peter and I decorated Mattie's cast. Peter did the 'I love you' at the top and I did the 'U R my sunshine' at the bottom.
Quote of the day: Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are. ~ Roy T. Bennett
Today took winter to a whole other level. It was beyond frigid out and the wind made things ten time worse. It was the kind of day you don't want to be outside! Yet with Sunny the border collie that is not an option. I don't know how we walked four miles in this weather, but we did it. Sunny refuses to do his business in the snow, so finding the right location for him is important and that is quite a mission in the cold! Meanwhile in addition to my usual fibromyalgia pains, I have a new one that is radiating down into my foot. It is painful to wear shoes and to walk. I do it and push myself, but wow!
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Vicki, I am reading backwards, finding out website is up &'running so I will forward it to some people. I am looking forward to the day, hoping the weather works well for the event!
Seeing Mattie's cast, reading all he endured and still couldn't walk is so unfair. There are no words to explain away the horror of all that kids in treatment experience. Each child is an individual. They may have similar cancers but cancer does not define Mattie or any of the children, I knew personally. I guess this is why, you have plenty of pictures of Mattie even in treatment with his beautiful Mattie smile. Even though in your heart, you know he wasn't always smiling. I am thinking of you and your mother heart!
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