{"id":2208,"date":"2009-04-21T16:07:52","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T21:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rozinblog.com\/ella\/?p=2208"},"modified":"2009-04-21T16:11:40","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T21:11:40","slug":"the-price-of-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rozinblog.com\/ella\/2009\/04\/21\/the-price-of-independence\/","title":{"rendered":"The price of independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2209\" style=\"width: 289px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2209\" data-attachment-id=\"2209\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.rozinblog.com\/ella\/2009\/04\/21\/the-price-of-independence\/_dsc4890\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.rozinblog.com\/ella\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/_dsc4890.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"399,600\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"_dsc4890\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;On the computer with the new cast and brace&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.rozinblog.com\/ella\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/_dsc4890.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2209\" style=\"margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 4px;\" title=\"_dsc4890\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rozinblog.com\/ella\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/_dsc4890.jpg\" alt=\"On the computer with the new cast and brace\" width=\"279\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rozinblog.com\/ella\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/_dsc4890.jpg 399w, https:\/\/www.rozinblog.com\/ella\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/_dsc4890-299x450.jpg 299w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 279px) 100vw, 279px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2209\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On the computer with the new cast and brace<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So&#8230; We want Ella to be as independent as possible, her walking capabilities enhanced, we encourage her to walk around and get from place to place on her own.<\/p>\n<p>Thing is&#8230; her ability to respond quickly when loosing balance is not totally there.<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday Ella was standing next to a door and playing with it. Enjoying the drama of opening and closing it. She lost her balance and fell hard on her left leg.<\/p>\n<p>It was clear something was wrong because she did not want to put any weight on it so we rushed to the hospital and had x-rays done.<\/p>\n<p>They found nothing. But a week went by and Ella was not willing to use that leg. She then saw the orthopedist who surmised that it is a hairline fracture, not visible on the x-rays and Ella got a cast on her left ankle.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the natural tendency of her left leg, since she hasn&#8217;t used it in a while her muscles contracted and it was painful for her to straighten the leg, so a brace was added to keep it straight for a while.<\/p>\n<p>She isn&#8217;t very mobile at the moment and any walking is done with a lot of help. Stairs are out of the question.<\/p>\n<p>We are hoping this doesn&#8217;t result in regression in her walking ability. She worked so hard to get where she is (was).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230; We want Ella to be as independent as possible, her walking capabilities enhanced, we encourage her to walk around and get from place to place on her own. Thing is&#8230; her ability to respond quickly when loosing balance is not totally there. Last Friday Ella was standing next to a door and playing with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ellaslog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4PM2I-zC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rozinblog.com\/ella\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rozinblog.com\/ella\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rozinblog.com\/ella\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rozinblog.com\/ella\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rozinblog.com\/ella\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2208"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.rozinblog.com\/ella\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2217,"href":"https:\/\/www.rozinblog.com\/ella\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions\/2217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rozinblog.com\/ella\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rozinblog.com\/ella\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rozinblog.com\/ella\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}