Lexi's Braces

A few weeks ago, Lexi finally got her braces! She does so great with them and they are helping wonderfully!

She has 3 braces: daytime leg brace, thumb brace (day and night), and her nighttime stretch splint brace. She wears her daytime leg brace for 4-6 hours a day. She always has to have shoes on while she is wearing them. Unfortunately, the shoes that are recommended are wicked pricey; they recommend brands like Nike/Sketchers/Etc because they are shoes that are made well, last a long time, and actually come in sizes with the same shoe (meaning that any other types of brands stop at kids size 6, and switch to a different style of shoe for size 7+). So, we headed to the mall and Lexi got some Nikes! Another downer of the shoes is that her left foot wears a normal size for her, and the right foot wears about 2 sizes bigger, so we have to buy 2 pairs - different sizes - of the same shoe! Shucks! We purchased the normal size a little big, so she had room to grow. She has tennis shoes and sandals. Lucky girl - $100+ worth of shoes for only 2 (well, 3 technically) pairs! :) Surprisingly, it is cheaper to buy the Nike/Sketcher/Etc type of shoes than it is to buy the shoes made specially for Dafos (brand/type of braces she has)! We call her thumb brace her "High Five Brace" because it forces her right hand into the high five position. She thinks the brace is pretty cool to give high fives with! Not pictured below is her Nighttime stretch splint, which she doesn't not do very well with. That brace looks essentially like the daytime one, but it has more of a hinge and 2 straps that you can pull across the leg in an X shape to stretch the ankle/leg any degree you want. Other than that brace, she is doing so great with them - we are so proud! She even tries to put them on herself! What a cutie! Of course, we got hot pink ones - what girl WOULDN'T want hot pink?!?!