The Legless Lizard

At this stage, I'd headed back to work for 2 days per week.  Katrina is Matt's awesome Physiotherapist at Nepean Hospital.  She's invested in her work immensely and her humour makes life simpler.  Katrina touched base by phone initially and got Jenny O'Neill's number and the two of them conversed together on what each was working on with Matt.  A stroke of luck to get someone like Katrina, who is as passionate about her work as Jen is.  The Universe strikes again for the Charnley family :) Katrina filmed this little section for Matt to send to me to see how he started off with his "first leg". He started off doing an hour to an hour and a half some days of this initial therapy.  Looking back now, he's just learning and getting his balance.  This was an amazing milestone.  Matt said this was the last part of his session so he was pretty exhausted by this stage.  

With our lives getting back to their new normal, the blog has taken a backseat, so I thought it was time to get some updates happening!!!! After what seemed a long journey for us, but seemingly fast for surgeon's, bystanders, physiotherapists and others involved, Matt's amputation wound healed well (and he has a mighty good looking stump might I add!) so he was ready for Physiotherapy! Matty started doing 3 sessions per week with the nothing short of amazing and miraculous, Jenny O'Neill - who has been Matt's incredible physio from Day 1, not to mention headspace extraordinaire and inspirational, motivational mentor!   Interestingly enough (with this fabulous Government Australia has) from a financial perspective, of course the NDIS will not allow any of his funding to be compensated for any of this cost because it is "private physiotherapy".   The logic in not supporting people to be proactive in their healing astounds me!  Shouldn't that save them...