“As soon as doctors tried it on her, she wanted to get up and go.” “She has adjusted great and is wearing her new foot to school daily,” Grant said. Now, with her prosthetic, there’s virtually no stopping her. At school, she crawled in and out of her wheelchair to play with friends at recess or sit on the classroom floor for group activities. Spunky and determined, Annabel put weight on her leg after the amputation as soon as she got the doctor’s approval. “I like running around,” said Annabel, who underwent seven weeks of physical therapy to learn to maneuver comfortably with her prosthetic.Īmy Grant said Annabel was able, for a long time, to play and run with help from splints.Īmputation of her right foot always was expected, Grant said, and Annabel used a wheelchair for four months after the surgery - but only to travel distances. The daughter of Amy and Tommy Grant of Natrona Heights, Annabel was born with fibular hemimelia - the absence of a fibula - in her lower right leg.įibular hemimelia occurs in about one in every 50,000 births.Īnnabel underwent surgery in July at Cleveland Clinic when her leg’s remaining bones could no longer support enough weight to allow her to stand. “I like my prossie so much!” Annabel said, referring to her new prosthetic foot. It was Annabel’s first day back in school with her new foot. Teachers and students lined the hallways of the district’s Early Childhood Center, hooting and hollering while the 5-year-old made her way to class.
Highlands kindergartner Annabel Grant received a rousing round of applause when she walked into school recently.