BLeSsINgs

Today Kevin and I took Shaylee to her "Foot Doctor". Shaylee was born with a severe club foot, which was corrected with surgery when she was 7 months old. She has had the same Dr. her entire life, his name is Dr. Santora...he is awesome!! We have been feeling sad lately, because Shay has been having alot of pain in her foot, which causes her to limp. Somedays are worse than others. It makes us sad that she will never be able to point that foot with the beautiful pointe of a dancer. Her calf muscle on that leg will never develop. She gets embarassed to wear shorts, swimsuits and capris ... because her leg size is so much different. So .. as you can see we were feeling like our little princess was being picked on. This last week at school some of the kids in her class were calling her a wimp, because she was so limpy this week!! Anyway as we went to the city today for the Dr. appointment, it was patient appreciation day..the air was filled with the smell of buttery popcorn and there were clowns walking the corridor of the hospital...making all the children laugh! We checked in, got our ID tags and set down. In walked a beautiful, dark haired Mom with a black backpack on her shoulders and a cute little, blonde, curly haired boy following close behind. He had on cute blue shorts and those tube socks that have a stripe on the top. She sat him down next to us, giving him a movie to watch, while she checked him in for his appointment. The little boy settled in to the chair before leaning over and takeing both his legs off and setting them carefully in front of him!! WOW...we are okay...we are blessed...our Princess Daughter is blessed. He looked at us and smiled as we walked by.  After Shay had her x-rays and was measured, weighed ect. towards us toddled a dark haired little guy, probably 2 or 3 years old. His hair came to a point in the middle of his head. "What a cutie" I said to Kevin. When we got in the room he asked if I had noticed that he only had one hand......no I did not notice. All I know for sure is that we are blessed and that Shaylee is blessed..things could always be so much worse.