I haven’t written much lately. That should in no way be mistaken for a lack of “goings on”, but I have been working on some other projects, one of them being this new site and our move to this new hosted service. I hope to be updating some of our posts, especially the series on K’s toe walking as this is far and away the most popular set of posts on our blog. Those posts popularity and some of the comments have been an impetus for another project I’m hoping to launch soon devoted entirely to the subject of toe-walking, so stay tuned! Continue reading →

I thought I would update our experiences with using the AFO’s for K’s toe-walking, not only for us but for those that have been viewing this series of posts which has become some of the most viewed on our blog.

We have been having some difficulty of late getting K to wear his AFO’s. We did put them on him a couple of times during the night when he was asleep, but this resulted in him waking after having them on for a couple of hours and being quite upset until we removed them. This may be partly why he doesn’t want to wear them now, we have, unfortunately, linked them to negative circumstances and he therefore refuses to put them on. Continue reading →

This is an update to a previous post and will include more personal experiences, though I do include some links and resources towards the end.

It has been a few weeks now since we took K to see the physiatrist and there have been some developments in addressing his toe-walking. I am going to speak about the developments and will follow with some of my impressions and thoughts on the entire experience to date. Continue reading →

I was recently looking at some home movies and photos from 2005 and 2006 and it is interesting that K walks with his heels down in, what appears to me, a normal heel-toe gait. I had completely forgotten this fact. His toe walking has become so deeply ingrained in my images of him and who/how he his that I had become convinced that he had always walked this way. I need to look back at more footage and try to see when we can start to see the change and see if we can corroborate that time with anything else that happened. These images of him standing and walking flat footed is in fairly striking contrast to how he walks today perpetually up on his tip toes, with the right foot being much more pronounced. Continue reading →