Finally!
Kaelynn is discharged from physiotherapy for her torticollis. She's not so bad to need surgery and only tilts when she's tired/lazy. We're good to go.
Plus, they were impressed with her vocabulary. They came into the room and said that she's having a birthday soon. Her response was "Two".
We woke up bright and early and made it to the physiotherapy appointment right on time. Normally, I like to arrive early but no one wants to sit in the Children's Outpatient Clinic longer than needed. I spend about 5 minutes trying to make their self check in work. 20 minutes later, we are in the room....when she wasn't trying to run away from the room.
The doctors ask me if I've seen any improvement. I say it's about the same. However; they notice improvement because they see her once every 2 months. Some mom friends we ran into at the mall agree that she is straighter.
I have forms to fill out for a charity to get her a TOT Collar, a doctors note and am now waiting on notice of assessments. They said that she would be a good candidate for the collar. She would only need it about 4-6 hours a day at home when awake (and more so when she is being still/lazy). There are 2 more options, leave it as is and hope as she grows it will figure itself out or small surgery to clip and loosen her muscle when she is older.
We go back in 2 months.
After a night of Kaelynn waking every 30 mins, we had to wake up bright and early for physiotherapy.
We were ready and had to leave to catch the 9:05am bus. We get out there at 8:50am and I had to run with her in her Ergo. We made it to the bus without slipping or dying.
A resident of the doctor saw us first and asked questions. She was interested in how it was going and in how she was walking (which had nothing to do with her neck). The doctor came in and said that she has a good range of motion, it's just the tilt that needs to get strengthened still. A social worker for the hospital came to talk to us about our options for getting the T.O.T collar for her (stuff happened not to long ago and daddy isn't working). She is supposed to call me tomorrow with what she can do for us.
