Guest guest Posted July 18, 2002 Report Share Posted July 18, 2002 Hiya Robyn: It's good to hear from you again. How's Matt doing in his DOCband? Will he be graduating soon? You've gotta be more than ready to be done with DOCbands after 2 kids & 2 + years....Hope things are well. Debbie abby's mom DOCGrad MI --- In Plagiocephaly@y..., Robyn Westfallen <pooterhead2002@y...> wrote: > > I have some experience with that. My older son received his first band at 10 months and graduated three bands later at 24 months. He figured out very quickly how to undo the band, and we found that a length of masking tape over the velcro worked for us. > Hope it helps! > Robyn > Mom of Drew Doc Grad 4/02 and Matt Doc Band 11/01-now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 19, 2002 Report Share Posted July 19, 2002 Hi again, I've been around but haven't had much of a chance to post much. Matt has an appointment with the neuro to get a prescription for his third band. Hopefully it will be his last. He has gotten pretty good correction, but he is unable to wear his band for the full 23 hours. He is in the process of being diagnosed with sleep apnea. Well that's what we think it is. His breathing gets unregulated and he has something that resembles a seizure when he is trying to regulate it. The reason they think it is apnea is that it only happens at night. So the neuro and CT all agree that leaving it off at night is best. So we just hope for the best correction possible. Robyn debbieandabby <dj2kirby@...> wrote: Hiya Robyn:It's good to hear from you again. How's Matt doing in his DOCband? Will he be graduating soon? You've gotta be more than ready to be done with DOCbands after 2 kids & 2 + years....Hope things are well.Debbie abby's mom DOCGradMI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 21, 2002 Report Share Posted July 21, 2002 Robyn, I sure hope that the doctors are able to get to the bottom of Matt's breathing problems. That sounds so scary! Hopefully the third will be the last - I know you must be tired of the whole thing by now! Good to hear from you again. Marci (mom to ) Oklahoma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 2, 2002 Report Share Posted October 2, 2002 Hi Robyn: Glad to hear from you, thanks for the update on your son. Sounds like things are going well for him & he's getting good improvement. Keep us updated please! Debbie Abby's mom DOCGrad MI I have an 11 month old daughter who has been in a doc band for 2 and > a half months. She will be getting it off on Monday, October 7. The > therapist at Cranial Tech has told us from the beginning that her > head shape is severe and she would need a second, maybe third band. > So when we went to the cranial facial surgeron yesterday for a re- > check and another prescription, he said no to another band ! He said > her head has been corrected enough that a lay person won't see > anything wrong ( and a little more hair will hide it). But mainly > because she is almost 12 months old, she wouldn't get enough > correction to justify a second band. He ultimately left the decision > up to us but his personal opinion was " no " . Help!! I'm pleased with > the progress we've seen so far, but I'd like to see a little more > change. But if the change is minimal like the doctor said, I see the > point of putting her through this again. > > Has anyone had a second band after 12 months and was it worth it? > > Dee > Georgia > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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