General @ Monday June 06, 2005 09:27 am by WunderKraut
WunderKid3 is now in her shoes!!!!!! That means no more casts!!!! We have to go back in two weeks, but after that, it should only be once a month until September. After that, it will probably be once every 2 to 3 months. Thank the Lord.
It is tough driving 5 hours each way, every two weeks. The drive gets very old, quickly.
Here are some pictures of her:
This is her in the shoes. She has adapted very quickly to them and is now able to get around in them. She is pretty slow, compared to before, but for the parents of an active one year old, that can be a good thing.
This is a picture of her corrected foot. It is hard to describe the change since she was born. This picture was taken looking down on her left foot. When she was born, the foot was turned to the right. It was so bad that her big toe was touching her calf. When you stood her up, you would see the bottom of her foot and she was standing on her outside ankle. I have a screen capture from the video of her birth that shows how bad the foot was. See here. Unfortunately we do not have any pictures of her foot. They keep them wrapped up that first day and they came first thing in the morning of the second day to put a cast on her foot. So we never had much of a chance. Oh well.
So now, it has been turned (over corrected) to the left. She should be walking by the middle of September.
It is amazing what the doctors at the Shriners Hospital can do.
One Response to “No More Casts!”
[...] WunderKid 3 was born with a clubbed left foot. I have written about her progress many times (see here, here, here, here and here). Seeing her walk made me think of how I felt the day she was born. We had no idea about her foot until they put her on the warming table to clean her up. The nurse casually said, “We have a clubbed left foot”. I was floored. What did that mean? Then I saw it! Oh my. Would she ever walk? Was it fixable? What was involved in fixing her foot? How long would it take? So many questions. WunderWife was wheeled to recovery only knowing her foot was clubbed. She wanted to know if everything else was ok, but being a bass-ackward hospital, she was in recovery for over an hour. I was alone with WunderKid 3 all that time. I held her and looked at her face. I never looked at her foot. It did not matter, she was perfect to me. I know a clubbed foot is not a “big deal” in the scheme of things, but it threw me for a loop. But as I held her and showed her off to the family, I knew I was going to have to tell them. We have video of me holding her before I told the family. Looking at it now you can see the pain and worry written all over my face. As I looked down at my beautiful daughter, I thought of a million ways to tell everyone. I knew all their questions, I had the same ones. But I had no answers. [...]