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As those of you know who have been following the discussion on the

CFPics group, I contacted Dr. Ponseti, Dr. Dobbs, and Dr. Herzenberg

to get an opinion on 's feet. All three of them suggested we

go see Dr. Frick, since he's only 3 hours from here. Ponseti

actually called us a little while ago! The good news is he doesn't

think 's correction is that off, and said they may want to do

one more cast to get some more dorsiflection, but then to try the

shoes instead. In his opinion 's " chubby feet " were

too wide for the Markell shoes, and this was where most of the

discomfort was.

I'm glad to find out our current doctor may not have been as far off

as was feared. We saw him today as well, and he didn't see any

problems with the way 's feet were sitting in the shoe -- only

said the socks were kinda thick (I'm not sure what to make of this

one -- they were the Target brand Circo baby socks with grippers on

the bottom, not the thinnest I've seen but pretty much normal, solid

colored socks). Evidently not too thick to evaluate the feet without

taking the socks off though. We're sticking with our socks, and

trying to keep the brace on as well even though doesn't like

it. If the correction is not bad, we don't want to cause a relapse

by taking it off. We're also going to go see Dr. Frick next Monday

for a second opinion, just to make sure things are ok.

Thanks again for the help and support.

Tom, , and