Starting from the beginning...

We have finally had an appointment with the right team (woohoo!). Our appointment was at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, admittedly I had never heard of this hospital before. But after some googling of the hospital, and the consultant we are under I hoped we were finally in the right place ... and we were! The first surprise when we arrived was that the parking was free ... I mean how many hospital have free parking? ... I work at a hospital and have to pay to park there ... so this almost felt like a late Christmas present.  Obviously I ensured we arrived early (a whole hour early to be exact) and wondered up to the outpatients to check in. Once checked in we decided to go and get a drink to kill a bit of time. I also felt like I needed to keep 'busy' and drinking a nice hot chocolate seemed like the best idea to help ease my nerves and make we feel like I was doing something - feeling anxious is a funny thing isn't it, why does keeping your hands busy he...

After my second 20 week scan and it being confirmed that my son would have a single digit on his foot and now other complications they could see, we were given information for the charity REACH which is for upper limb differences ... I guess you can see the problem there? The ironic thing is it took me a while to want to look through that information and by the time I was ready to look into this world, I didn't even have the right information to start looking for advice and support. So, I have decided to try and put a bit of an information list about websites for various limb differences. It'll mainly focus on the UK but will have some websites from America. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ⇨REACH⇦ REACH is a charity for children with upper limb differences. Their website has a members options, which helps you gain access to plenty of support and advice, meet up...