Yay - A Date!

Whew. Finally. A Date: Tuesday 25 March. And it's quite cool coz turns out it's Independence Day in Greece...which is somehow semi-meaningful since Tara's half Greek and on 25 March her personal journey to independence begins!

We're meeting the local prosthetist tomorrow and the therapist again on Friday - this time for individual sessions. 

Psychologically everyone seems fine at the moment. Tone got momentarily freaked when Rosie phoned with the appointment - kind of the definite-ness of it; Jadie and Cas nearly lost it yesterday when Tara got a pressie and they didn't - but she's promised to share with them; and Tara herself said to me this weekend that she wishes she could have two lives - her current life, and another one with everything the same except she has two normal legs and she can do magic...which was kinda upsetting coz she's never had a wish like that before - but it's because this whole process has taken so long - so she's been unable to stand on two legs for over two months now and has been experiencing that 'left out' feeling eg. when the kids play 'walking on water' (running from the side of the pool into the water and staying above the surface for as long as they can) and she patiently watches and laughs with them, and then finally says 'that looks like  fun, but please can we play something I can do too now'. She could do that kinda stuff before Christmas so she's never really felt left out before. (And I know we could just not play the 'walking on water' game for a while - but that's just one example of many things!) 

Plus, altho' Tara's doing the physio exercises with her leg - it's still getting thinner and weaker every day that this op is delayed because it's not doing any weight bearing. So, for me, thank goodness the op is only three weeks away! 

Weekend was fab - and Tara and Jadie both met up with Tara's new penpal in the coffee shop on ClubPenguin's website - and then they went to Tara's igloo and had the BEST snowfight ever. You should've heard them laughing with TOTAL joy when they first spotted her penpal in the coffee shop - isn't that just divine - that that's what can make a 7-year-old SO happy!