Re: shoes questions

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Thanks, Kori! I looked at the red place this morning and it is not better but

not worse, either, which seems like a good sign. Am I doing the right thing by

padding it with cotton gauze? Dr. Ponseti gave me some when I was there (and

some other stuff...seeing him was like going to a party where I got lots of

favors...LOL). It is the gauze they use to wrap the baby's legs with before

casting so it is soft and sticks to itself. I just folded up a piece twice and

put it between her sock and her shoe. I am doing the same thing with the toe

and the red spot on the toe (which was SOOOO tiny to begin with) is totally

gone. I am trying to be so careful and vigilent about her feet, even in the

s, because I don't want any skin breakdown, sores, etc.

She has not been sleeping well, which I tend to blame on the adjustment to the

FAB. She doesn't wake up crying but just stirs a lot and wakes up. Since she

is next to me in bed, she wakes me up, too. She does start out in the bassinet

if I can get her down in it (works most of the time) but spends the rest of the

night in bed with me after her first waking, which is earlier than it was when

she was in casts. Last night she was in bed with me from midnight on...it used

to be somewhere between 2-4 am. I fear that I will not get much sleep for a

while.

Carol

Re: shoes questions

oh! you did what I have done a couple of times! The rubber was

folded under her foot in the front. Darbi has a sore right now from

me doing that. It's easy to do if you're not watching closely. I'll

take a pic of Darbi's sore so you can check it with 's but it

sounds exactly like the one she got a couple of weeks ago. I did it... duh!

The bar is coming apart because the screws are loose, if

they're sticking out they're not tight enough, they should be

flush. Get an allen wrench set with tiny wrenches and tighten them

up. this is how you adjust the bar length btw.

The heel thing, just watch it drop. one of her feet may just be a

little higher in the heel that the other. When you put her into the

shoes, lie her foot down into it and point her toes (opposite of the

markells - funny but it works). Then pull the tongue over so that it

lies flat where it attaches, pull hard, tuck it over the rubber on

the other side and then do the middle strap. Then you can dorsiflex

her foot and push the heel back into the pocket. Then buckle the top

strap, and then the toes.

They should be tight,yes. And the straps will stretch, so watch fo

that to loosen a bit and adjust as needed over time.

Funny that I knew what you were talking about with the sore. Darbi

kept telling me her shoes hurt, and even pointed to where but I

didn't bother to check them that close (it was in the middle of the

night...) and found it the next morning. If you fold the front

rubber under her foot you'll see where it would crease and rub right

at that spot you found the sore. When Darbi was seeing her orthotist

last week he saw it too, and I warned him that I did it and to tell

parents about this lol.

It's taking a long time to heal, darbi's sore that is. Like any sore

on the foot in these shoes. blah... so give it time to clear up k?

Kori

At 05:29 PM 2/5/2006, you wrote:

> has been in her FAB since Thursday evening so about

>three days and nights. She has adjusted fairly well with her main

>objection being that her feet are spread far apart when I am rocking

>her to sleep and she cannot put them together to cuddle with me as

>she is used to doing.

>

>However, after the first night, I noticed a small red spot on the

>side of her big toe, which I padded with gauze between the shoe and

>the sock and this has fixed that problem. ( has very strange

>toes, which are curled under and the big toes curve inward toward

>her feet so this is a problem.) When I took the shoes off this

>evening during our hour break, I noticed a red mark on the outside

>border of her foot about a quarter of a inch long about halfway

>between her toes and her heel. I don't know if it is the beginning

>of a pressure sore or the beginning of a blister. It didn't seem to

>hurt her. I padded it with gauze at that area like I did with the toe.

>

>Here are the questions...Does this mean that I am getting the shoes

>too tight? Not tight enough? Do the s have to be as tight

>as the Markells? Am I doing the right thing to pad it with

>gauze? Her left foot is the one with the red mark on the toe and on

>the side. It is the foot which doesn't have the 15 degrees of

>dorsiflexion... more like 5-10. Both our local ortho and Dr.

>Ponseti thought we should not do a tenotomy and wait to see if the

>heel cord stretches. Her heel is not down on this foot as much as

>it is down on the right foot, although the right foot is not all the

>way down, either. I know from past posts here not to be concerned

>if the heels are not all the way down right away.

>

>I want to catch any problems quickly and address them so suggestions

>are welcome. Also, I found out this evening that I can pull the

>brace/bar apart with no tools..completely apart with the shoes each

>having a piece of the bar and making it into two pieces. This

>doesn't seem right. Is there a flaw with the bar? It has two holes

>in the back of it and one has a screw type thing sticking out of

>it. The other has a screw indented into it. Does this sound like

>it is supposed to be? Thanks,

>

>Carol and , bcf, 10-27-05, FAB 23/7

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