Baby Leg Update Interspersed With Some Funny Pictures

Here's a little background on who Daphne is seeing right now for her legs: Dr Renwick is her pediatric orthopedist. He did her casts and her surgery. Ron is the orthotist who works for Hanger Orthopedic Group. We go to his office for her braces.

Dr Renwick is in charge of her overall foot care, but right now Ron is who we'll be seeing the most. He's maintaining what Dr Renwick has done up to this point. Today we all got together to make a tentative plan for the coming months.















Daphne needs another foot surgery, but they want to wait until she is completely healed from the last one. She's in the braces so that her feet don't regress to where they used to be. They aren't really doing anything to improve the position of her feet. The reason there is no bar between the braces (like if she had the shoes) is because the braces go above her knee and can keep her ankles from moving. With shoes, the bar keeps her ankles from moving.

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The braces seem to be doing their job perfectly, especially since we found the one person who can keep Daphne in them. Good thing he lives with us.

So, we won't need to go see Ron for about another month. We won't see Dr Renwick for 3 months. What are we going to do with ourselves with all this free time?? Could we possibly go a whole month without a doctor appointment? Daphne's gonna get spoiled.

In 3 months Dr Renwick will make a plan for Daphne's next surgery. They don't want it to be too close to her cleft palate surgery (probably the week of Thanksgiving, when she will be 11 months old), but they do want it to be early enough so that Daphne can start standing when she's 12-18months old. He was thinking of waiting until she's healed from the palate surgery. If I have a vote, it seems like we should do it before. Like in September or something. But since I don't have the initials 'M.D.' after my name, my vote probably is not worth much.

After her foot surgery she'll have casts again (yuk) and then possibly some sort of contraption with a bar. I also heard something about pins in her foot (another yuk). Not really sure what that means. Dr Renwick said they just have to see how things go, since Daphne is her own special little case.

So that's really all we know for now. The braces she has now will stay the same for the next several months until she is healed enough for them to do her next surgery.















P.S. We're still working on the chicken names. Thanks to Nate for his suggestions that actually fit into the type of names I like (my favorite being Hester, although David likes Fourth Meal). No thanks to my mom and sister for their names that will not even be considered. =)