No More Hat Head

Today was a big day – Sadie “graduated” from the helmet. The doctor’s saw such great improvement in the 8 weeks that she has had it and said at this point we need to just focus on her neck. So we will continue with physical therapy and using her neck brace. There is still the possibility of having surgery on her neck but we are going to give the therapy a little while longer before we explore that route. Basically, how it is described to me, there are two muscles on either side of your next called the SCM that are kind of like rubber bands. On Sadie’s left side the muscle is tighter, stronger and appears shorter, causing her to tilt her head, the surgery would “release” this muscle making each side even. Sounds simple enough, though something I still want to avoid for obvious reasons.

Hollis wanted to be sure she got a picture up too...she is very excited not to get bopped in the head while wrestling with Sadie!