Carter had his two week post op check yesterday! 

All of Carter’s labs have come back down and normalized! 

Carter has officially completed his nearly EIGHT weeks of antibiotics and is officially DONE taking them! 

His incision looks pretty good - we are watching a small area at the bottom that is reddened, tender and slightly swollen.  BUT with that being said, myself and his tram of doctors agreed this is the smallest, most normal looking we have seen his leg on two months! 

His sutures were taken out!  This made Carter so incredibly anxious! But he rocked it and was so strong! He took his first shower tonight unsupervised and without wrapping his leg!!

We had some more X-rays done - one of each keg. These will be our official “baseline” X-rays moving forward. We will continue to watch his right leg as much of the bone still has a bright transparent look to it. The hole they had to make during the first surgery hasn’t changed much but the hope is now that the old and new infection seem to have nearly completely resolved, the bone can focus on regrowing again! Carter will have X-rays every 4-6 weeks to monitor his growth plate and ensure it isn’t slowing or getting fused over. So we still have at least a year of follow ups ahead. 

With that being said - who’s ready for the best news yet? 

Carter is WALKING! He was officially given the okay to start walking! He can bare full weight - for the first week, with crutches. After that, without! He is only allowed to walk, though. No running, jumping, twisting, dancing, etc. With that hole in his bone remaining unchanged and it still being somewhat compromised from infection, it is still incredibly vulnerable and weak.  BUT HE IS WALKING! I had to use all of my strength to hide my happy tears from him! 😭😍

We are all done seeing infectious disease unless something reoccurs or new arises. We will continue to see Ortho foe the unforeseeable future - but we don’t go back for SIX weeks, unless anything comes up. 

Yesterday was HUGE! Thank you all for the continued love, prayers and support. Please continue to keep this unimaginably strong little boy on your prayers as he continues on this long journey of recovery. ♥️