It has been a busy week in our household – but a good one, especially when both Max and Lucia had throat infections last week. Happily, both are on the mend now with Max back to school and bringing home plenty of catch up homework!
As for Lucia – it has been a week for tights and shoes! On Tuesday her long awaited new compression garments arrived and fitted well so we were delighted – as was she in her ‘new tights’. Then today we decided to take a trip to the local shoe shop to see if any shoes may fit her. We do this every few months on the chance that there may be a new style that would work. However, my main motivation was to try and get her a leather pair for winter as her poor feet have been freezing lately in her canvas Converse.
We had the most helpful sales assistant who spent an hour with us trying to find something to fit…and about 20 pairs later (no exaggeration) we got a pair! Pink, soft leather and oh so pretty. Lucia absolutely loves them and is proud as punch! I think I will probably take her to see Lymphoedema Physio Lynne to make sure she is happy with the fit but i think they are practically perfect in every way.
We then went to pick Max up from school and Lucia was running around outside as we waited…and she fell hard on her knees. Thankfully she was ok – just a small scratch on her knee that we’ll keep a close eye on – but her tights didn’t escape so well and the left knee had a gaping hole.
Just three days old and ruined. I actually cried as we have no back up pair yet. This was our first pair made to her new measurements, so until we tell the company we are happy with the first pair they hold off on any further pairs.
I contacted Lynne to tell her and she quickly got onto Jobskin so hopefully we’ll get the next pair within the next week to 10 days. Until then, I got my sewing kit out (again) and repaired as best I could then washed them to try and get the muddy stain out too.
So bit of a mixed day, but mostly good. It is wonderful having Lucia finally fitted with her first pair of ‘proper’ shoes and she has been taking the little lid off the box all afternoon just looking at them. And Daryn barely got through the door after work before she was showing them off! Adorable!
Happy weekend!
I’m pleased for you all that you have found such a pretty pair of shoes which fit Lucia’s feet, look like they will protect her feet, are pink and with butterflies! What more could you wish for! Lucia can show them off to everyone and they will be admired by all.
Unfortunately compression stockings damage easily. I’m sure they are still effective after darning.
A hole in a compression stocking is a minor setback, a new pair of pretty shoes is a giant leap forward!
Keep smiling!
You are exactly right Christina…getting a pair of ‘proper’ shoes is a huge step forward and one we didn’t know would even happen!! She absolutely loves them and doesn’t want to take them off 🙂 x
Oh my that is just wonderful news on the shoes! Such gorgeous shoes, so very pretty she must be so happy with them. It’s a wonderful feeling when you find shoes that fit, I too live in converse, they are great for swollen feet.
Must have been so upsetting for you getting a new hole in her stockings, it’s typical isn’t it. Whenever I get new ones I always manage to hole them in the first week! I good darn usually does the trick though. Hope you don’t have to wait too long for her new pair.
Enjoy your weekend I’m sure Lucia will be having lots of new adventures with her fab shoes!
Thanks Julie. The shoes are wonderful and her pride and joy! And yes it is typical that the garments end up damaged so quickly but it is inevitable with a toddler! The butterfly shoes made up for it 🙂 x
Great that you finally got shoes to fit and Clarkes are great and wear well. I can empathise with how you feel about new garment and know only too well the sinking feeling you get when they are destroyed. It just takes so long to get the garments and most times don’t fit first time and have to be returned for altering. Wishing you all well x
It can be very frustrating can’t it? I was really annoyed at the time but have sewn them as best I can and hopefully over the next few weeks (before Christmas at least!) we’ll have a few back up pairs x
Love the shoes…
Me too!x
awww , love her shoes, and i can emphasise with you how stressful shoe shopping is,
its a good job you are good at sewing , i can see i will be darning our baby Belles if and when they finally fit her with compression tights , we have a long road ahead though until that happens,
i love reading your blog , keep up the good work . xx hugs to Lucia and Max. xx
Thanks Tula, you are so sweet 🙂 I have had to become good at sewing!! Pretty basic but does the job! You could maybe try Belle in these shoes? They are Clarks first shoes range called Alana Star and are an h width. Not many pairs go to an h and they have good depth as well. Might be worth a shot xx
I just want to say that I think that you are doing a wonderful job keeping her legs as good as they can be!
I promise you that she will be grateful for this when she becomes an adult. You are giving her a chance to have close to normal legs!
When my lymphoedema developed in ny teens no one knew what it was until two years har passed and made my leg look like a log…
I live a normal life with a job, children and husband and my lymphoedema is kept in check.
But it is not a leg I want to show off..
Lucia is so lucky to have you ☺
Hi Tina, thanks so much for such kind words. We are very grateful that we got an early diagnosis to be able to everything we can to keep her Lymphoedema well maintained. I am glad yours is kept in check, that it hasn’t held you back in life and you have a wonderful family! We hope all of that for Lucia too so it is great to read comments like yours. Thank you xx