Re: Re: Happy UPDATE!!! Isaac

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At 11:45 AM 2/7/2006, you wrote:

>Celebration halted for the moment. When I took him out of the shoes

>to get him dressed this morning, he had a red spot on the upper part

>of each heel. I just checked again, and the spots are not worse,

>and seem to have faded for now. They were red, not purple, not

>raised like a blister yet.

red is usually ok if it doesn't get worse. Just keep an eye on

it. but this is telling me that his heel still isn't fully seated in

the shoes so you'll want to work on that.

>I have scanned through a few of the tips files, but some it seems

>contradictory...tight shoes can cause blisters, but too loose can

>cause friction causing blisters??

no, tight is what you want. Tight is good. Tight does not allow the

foot to move, which is friction. And can cause blisters. If the

heel isn't seated fully the *wrong* part presses against the heel

counter in the shoes. And while they seem tight (or too tight) this

is how pressure sores are formed.

Don't worry about too tight. It's really difficult if not impossible

to make them too tight.

>On to 2nd problem. He has now started slipping out(twice today so

>far only in his clubfoot). I moved the tongue down a little, and

>checked his positioning several times. I don't understand how the

>reascal is doing it.

make sure you SHOVE the heel in and dorsiflex at the same time (push

hard on the knee), press on the tongue with your thumb, tighten

strap, then dorsiflex again and push again into the heel of the

shoe. Press on strap and tongue, tighten further if needed. Then

when you think you're tight, pull on the heel. If it moves at all,

do the above all over again till it doesn't move.

>I have some moleskin from our 1st(non- DBB/FAB brace) brace

>experience left. Can I cut and glue a part of that at the top of

>the ankle part of the shoe where the plastizote would be put at?

>Would that work the same?

It might help. Wouldn't be a bad idea. But it isn't as thick as

plastizode would be, not nearly so. So it wouldn't work the same,

yet might help keep the foot in the shoe.

>I also read on the Ponsetti file that the open heel shoes are only

>made up to size 1? Is that still true bc that it what size Isaac(7

>months is in now) and though he is in the regular ones right now, I

>did and am still requesting the open heel ones. Ironically, I still

>have open heeled ones from the other brace system we had, but they

>are too small now.

no, they make them up to size 8 now. 4 & 5yo sizes and I expect

larger sizes will come as needed with kids staying in them longer now.

HTH

Kori

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> > Day 6 is rising, and I got 8.25 hr of sleep only interrupted twice

> > briefly. Yippee!

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> > Isaac nursed right to sleep no problems(wearing FAB).

> > He woke, and fussed when laid down on our bed next to me, so my

> > wonderful(at the moment,lol) husband rocked him to sleep.

> > He woke an hr later. Dh took that duty also. I must look like

>death

> > for him to do night help. ;-)

> > He woke once and kicked around about 2 am, but fell back asleep

>with

> > us patting and soothing.

> >

> > At 7am, we woke up to realize he was still asleep AND we had not

>taken

> > the bar off. I drew back the covers thinking he must have kicked

>it

> > off to be sleeping so long so good, but NOPE!! The bar and shoes

>were

> > still in place. Albeit he is sleeping in our bed, but u know

>what, I

> > don't care. My ped. can lecture all he wants.

> >

> > I did tighten the hole/notch one more hole, and he didn't move his

> > foot at all. :-)

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