Re: Re: 7 MONTHS AND A WAYS TO GO

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Thanks for the input. After cooling down some, I think I will just send a

letter and let him know my thoughts/concerns.

Re: 7 MONTHS AND A WAYS TO GO

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I think the topic has been discussed before, but that I know of no one

has ever done it. I think a person would have to prove that the

doctor mislead them into believing that they were getting the Ponseti

method, when in fact the doctor was deviating enough that a court

would see the difference. And if the medical professionals can't

figure out the difference I'm not sure that the average judge and/or

jury would. Also, I think the child's feet would have to be

irreparably harmed. Not that I'm advocating doing this or anything,

but I guess it could happen at some point.

> >

> > My son is 7 months old. He was born with a severe case of club

> > foot. We did the serial casting starting when he was 2 days old.

> > We did that for approximately 12 weeks. At that time he had his

> > first tendon lengthening surgery. After surgery, he was casted

> for

> > the 3 week period and then we were told he needed the orthopedic

> > shoes. We tried the shoes for 12 more weeks. They kept falling

> off

> > and they weren't doing what they were supposed to do, they weren't

> > correcting his foot. So the doctor said we needed to do another

> > tendon lengthening surgery (this one they lengthened the tendon

> that

> > elongated the big toe). After surgery he was casted for 2 weeks.

> > After those casts came off, the foot still wasn't coming up (to a

> > right angle), so we are back to casting weekly. Our most recent

> > appointment was the Monday before the 4th of July and the doctor

> > said that the casting isn't giving the results that he had hoped

> > for, so we may have to do a third tendon lengthening

> surgery....this

> > time on the peroneus longus tendon. I'm starting to wonder how

> many

> > more of these surgeries we are going to have to go through. I've

> > tried to find other information on the web, but there is so much

> > that is not known about this deformity.

> > Anyone have any reassuring input/advice?

> >

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