Guest guest Posted May 1, 2006 Report Share Posted May 1, 2006 Hi everyone, My son Luke is 5 months old. He has bilateral club foot. He started casting after the second day of birth. When Luke was born it was two days before Thanksgiving. Therefore we had to wait a couple days before an orthapedic could come and tell us what was wrong with Lukes feet. The hospital kept me for three nights. Finaly an Orthapedic doc came, Told us Luke has a 95% chance he will not need surgery. That made us happy. The doc says it can be fixed. he explained that castings needed to be done. We had no Idea about clubfoot, I can say the doctor made us feel so much better telling us the things he said, it relaxed us to much. Anyways; We were doing castings every week. The doctor told us his feet are doing wonderfull. We are more than 50% there! That made us feel good. Then the last cast will stay on for 3 Weeks. Well, when we went in to take off the 3 week cast this is when things were not going so good anymore. The doc said his feet are not getting better and he will need surgery. We were so disapointed. We believed for so many weeks our son was doing great. They put more casts on him for two weeks while we waited for his braces. The doc also says he wants to do surgey when he is 9 months old. We got the braces, we hate the braces! We cant keep them on his feet the right way. Anyways this is about the time I start to investigate clubfoot. We decide to go get a second opinion 3 hours away from us. This doc says posterior release as soon as possible. We set the date. 1 week later I joined nosurgery4clubfoot. I recieved info on how to talk with doc Ponseti. I sent him an e mail of Lukes feet. Dr Ponseti says Luke has aytipical clubfoot. He also says to come see him in Iowa. My husband and us are going. After all the good things I hear about his work, I would be crazy not to. We leave thursday. Northern California to Iowa we go. Our appointment is on May 8th. I will post U all soon. Thanks for all the good info. And good luck to us all. Luke's Mommy. Dana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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