Re: Sharing our story

[Guest guest]

My heart is so blessed as I read your story and ours

is so similiar. I am in America tho, and the doctors

are more easily available. We had a worse case of

clubfoot and have been treating it aggressively for

over a year. He just had a very extensive surgery to

release the soft tissue. He weighs 35 lbs. So our

backs hurt too. God is so good tho, He is healing in

His time. We trust Him supremely. I am most blessed

by the story of your doctor and would love to know

what came of your visit.

Tina

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--- chenyao120 wrote:

> Dear folks,

>

> Our baby Isaac who was born in Taiwan this July 27

> has clubfeet -a

> kind of congenital foot deformity needed medical

> intervention right

> after the birth. Believe it or not, we didn't

> experience such a

> shock or desperate sorrow from his feet situation.

> From our six

> times of ultrasound, we didn't get a tiny piece of

> news about any

> kind of deformity like harelip or

> more-than-ten-fingers (my medical

> dictionary is not at hand) or something else. In

> our heart we

> believed that God would undoubtedly give us a

> perfect baby (now we

> understand Isaac is a perfect baby God has promised

> to us). When our

> baby showed up with a pair of twisted inward

> abnormal feet we just

> had the faith that God will definitely heal him. And

> we simply

> believed that the treatment was just some massages

> at home in our

> leisure time (you know I am a ENT doctor but our

> male midwife said

> so). Later we realize that since God gave us a baby

> like that He

> must have some deeper purposes. If we had learned

> that how many

> troublesome moments were waiting for us on the way

> we could have had

> lost our heart and not have been so optimistic.

> Thank God using our

> poor knowledge on this field to protect us and keep

> His joy and

> peace in our heart.

>

> So we went to see a orthopedic doctor in Taiwan and

> started the

> treatment there. After four times of weekly

> changing casts we saw a

> lot of progress. Yet God was not satisfied with the

> doctor (if you

> are a Taiwanese I am sorry to say that. I didn't

> mean to despise

> your medical caring level since the situation in

> China mainland are

> even worse). Actually He prepared a perfect doctor

> for us. When we

> had to stop our treatment in Taiwan because of my

> leaving from job

> expired and needed to go back to China, we horribly

> found that we

> could not find even one qualified doctor in this

> area to handle our

> baby's situation.

>

> Later on, we started surfing the internet looking

> for relevant

> information fanatically and meanwhile went a couple

> of times to

> Kunming meeting some experts who twisted our little

> baby's tiny feet

> harshly (when they did that I felt my heart being

> squeezed) and

> promised that if we did it their way and wore their

> magic splint

> boots our son would be cured. Fortunately the

> searching of internet

> ended up finding one qualified doctor in Shanghai of

> China where is

> about two thousand kilos from Yunnan and another one

> in Bangkok of

> Thailand. If you learned how inconvenient to see a

> doctor in China

> and how terribly high price of the accommodation in

> Shanghai are you

> would agree that we went to Bangkok is a wise

> decision. Currently we

> have stayed in Bangkok about a month (mostly Melody,

> and I went back

> and forth). The doctor God has prepared for us is

> called Dr. Amnuay.

> If you log in the website WWW.clubfootclub.org you

> would find his

> name on the qualified doctor list, who uses Ponseti

> method to treat

> clubfoot. The Ponseti method is the most popular and

> the most

> effective nonsurgerical way to treat clubfoot. Dr.

> Amnuay explained

> that the main part of treatment consists of

> manipulation, serial

> casting, heel cord cut and wearing brace. For

> correcting the

> deformity,the manipulation must be done on the right

> way to avoid

> making the feet worse, called rocking bottom, which

> is a situation

> that cannot be corrected. Now we understand why God

> led us to

> Bangkok for treatment because the doctor said if

> Isaac's feet were

> continuously manipulated in Taiwan and in China,

> Isaac's feet would

> unavoidably become worse.

>

> In Bangkok, Isaac has had five times of weekly

> casting. Actually we

> joke ourselves by calling the cast the most

> fashioned long stocks

> for baby. His feet showed an over-corrected look,

> which is the

> treatment trying to achieve. This Tuesday, we had

> the Achilles

> tendon cut under local anesthesia. The Tuesday

> before, Dr. Amnuay

> said that he was going to do the tenotomy under

> general anesthesia,

> but Melody wasn't comfortable with that. Last

> Wednesday Isaac

> started a cough and a runny, stuffed nose. While the

> cold was

> getting worse, we eventually went to see a

> pediatrician who

> diagnosed our son as acute bronchitis and called a

> cancel of the

> Tuesday surgery. Since we have been prepared for

> this point for a

> long time, we are disappointed of the postpone. We

> went back to the

> Baptist guest house and prayed to our lord. After

> prayer, we got

> peace in mind and still prepared for the surgery as

> scheduled. You

> know, just as we wished, the surgery was done on

> Tuesday under local

> anesthesia. It's a very small surgery that the main

> purpose is to

> cut his heel cords. I was invited into the operating

>

> room so that I was able to help out with something

> like holding

> Isaac's feet and leg while the doctor was putting on

> the casts.

> Meanwhile I took some picture also. It's not a scary

> scene at all.

> You may say that it's because I am a doctor. But

> don't forget that I

> am his father, who is never able to play a doctor's

> role in the

> family. The operation is a simple procedure. Because

> the cut is so

> small that the doctor described it as a mosquito

> bite (if you have

> seen the swellen and redness on Isaac's forehead and

> arms of the

> mosquitoes bite you would say that it is not small

> at all ) you are

> hardly able to recognize the cut after three or four

> weeks later

> when the cast is taken off. According to our doctor,

> this surgery

> was successful. He said that he could not promise a

> 100% of cure to

> Isaac's situation, at least a chance like 90% up.

> But as you may

> know, we do not count on the doctor's skill or

> statistic figure. It

> is Lord who we place our faith on. He will heal our

> son and use him

> to bless many nations because it is His promise.

> Praise His name.

>

> It's totally out of our expectation, especially as a

> Chinese, that

> our doctor and his wife are going to treat us for

> dinner this Friday

> evening. He said that he is a serious Buddhist for

> 4 or 3 years but

> interested in discussing religion with us. The

> dinner is based on

> friendship instead of a relationship of doctor and

> patient, but we

> still cann't figure out how we deserve his

> friendship. Anyway, we

> prepared a Thai-English Bible for him as a gift,

> thinking that the

> Gospel is the best gift. So please pray for this,

> asking God give us

> a chance to convert him. Here are more prayer

> requests, listed as

> the followings:

>

> -- It has been a long time that I felt like to

> resign from my

> present job, which has been keeping me from my

> family and the

>

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