Re: Lida!

[Guest guest]

Had to reply to this!! It is so great to hear from you! Lida it was you

that pointed me in the direction of Miss Mehta, way back in 2002/2003. I

have thought of you often during the last 5 years and wondered if we would

ever communicate, again. I hope you are doing well and look forward to

catching up! Gotta run and make dinner! Will check in later.

HRH

> Dear ,

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> Whoever told you to " wait & see " should be shot. 44 degrees in one so

> young

> is very significant. And whatever decision a parent comes to it is

> through

> a process which should not be hurried or jeopardised in any way. What a

> prat that doctor is.

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> Min Mehta is a colleague of my own surgeon in England, but I get the

> feeling

> that her casting of infants has taken off not in the UK but only through

> 's hard work in the USA which began, I believe around 2003.

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> Lida in London

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> Hello, want to introduce myself and my son

> Jonas to this board for 1st time

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> Shriners had a " wait and see " attitude, saying theres a slight chance he

> could " grow out of it " and to come back in 3 months. We went back to

> Dr Karl 2nd time and there was no chance still 44% and at this point

> he suggested to wait till he was walking and to expect preventative

> casting and future surguries involving rods along spine etc. We went

> to shriners 2nd time they had similar opinion, but seemed a tad

> frustrated that we were going to different doctors and suggested we

> make a decision on who was going to treat jonas. Dont get me wrong.

> shriners is wonderful and people there are very nice, just got the

> impression that the doctor there felt we were wasting his time while

> on quote " there are other patients with no insurance waiting a long

> time to be seem, i dont know why you would travel so far when you

> have excellent health coverage and a doctor closer by that can see

> him "

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