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Summer 2023 Roundup!

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 It's been far too long since I've posted an update and certainly not for lack of activity. It's been an incredibly busy summer and I just haven't had chance to share the latest. So I'll try and do a roundup of key leg-related events as well as where we are in the surgery timeline.  Walking Progress Starting with the non medical stuff, Rory has made some great progress and we have exciting milestones/moments to share!  In May we went to Disneyland with family and made incredible memories. Rory was overjoyed and proud to show Mickey Mouse his "Mickey Leg". Mickey signed his prosthetic, which had us in [happy] tears. Later, our prosthetic centre Blatchford coated the prosthetic so that the marker pen wouldn't rub off. Certainly one to cherish! All of his nursery friends were really impressed and its things like this that make the experience of wearing a prosthetic a positive one for Rory; he's genuinely proud and happy to wear his leg, as opposed to