Please help! Just learned that my one-year-old will need spinal fusion surgery.

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So, it turns out that 's curve got worse from his first x-ray back at the end of August. It is now 35 degrees and then it was 30. He has a unilateral bar from T8-T12. The ortho wants to do surgery. He's done spinal surgery on over 100 1-2 year olds. He has done other types of surgery on babies as young as 2 months old. He has been treating our son since last February for a right clubfoot. He is the chief of pediatric orthopedic surgery at NYU and has been voted as one of New York's best doctors in New York Magazine for many many years. We will definitely seek other opinions, but I think I would trust him to do the surgery. His name is Feldman. We will probably also go see Dr. Boachie or Dr. Widmann. Any advice, any questions I should ask, ANYTHING would be greatly appreciated. I'm at a loss just thinking about everything. The surgery itself, the anesthesia, whahe will

be able to eat/not eat, how he will sleep, sit, how the cast will be, how the brace will be, etc. He's already wearing a brace every night for his foot (he was born with a right clubfoot). Fun times. He's such a little sweetie pie and I know this whole ordeal will be very trying and I hope and pray that all will go well and that he won't need anything beyond this..... __________________________________________________