Marissa's 2nd Cast

[Guest guest]

Hope all is well with everyone. Sorry I haven't updated sooner, but

as soon as we got back from Erie last week, I was off to

Philadelphia until yesterday. I'm catching up on emails, looks like

a lot of good things happening to folks, this is great.

Last Wednesday, Marissa was put into her second cast. Upon

inspection, Dr. noticed nice improvement out of cast. She

was definitely down from her high 30's of two months earlier. He

decided to put her into the same type of cast at this time. His

rationale was that he wanted to continue on the same path hoping to

continue the trend. Also, because of our distance and this being

only her 2nd cast, he felt best to wait for any waterproof type. We

were OK with this, especially after we got the results.

Dr. told us the x-ray out of cast has her down to 30 out of

cast and 12 in cast. As you all know, the top corrected to 0 in the

last cast and continues to be 0 out of cast. Her back looks great.

This is my hope and theory as I looked at the x-rays. Due to

catching this at a time where it seems she's responding well and the

nature of the curve -- left lumbar, I'm thinking that as she has

some real nice growth left soon, it'll correct. Dr. was

really pleased with the trend. Knowing where we started, he was

confident that this treatment was working and getting her to grow

straight was possible.

Marissa did great. She was a little fussier than usual in recovery,

the nurses really thought that she was a terror. She screamed

bloody murder when she caught a glance at any of them. As soon as

she moved up to her room upstairs, she was getting back to normal

and very cooperative. had no problem trimming and Tabitha

pedaled with ease, in fact Marissa fell asleep during it. She seems

to be able to move much better in this cast. It also seems a better

fit around her. I think has a lot to do with this as she was

not available to trim during our first cast, she was out. The

bottom is much tighter than the last one, so we're keeping a

watchful eye on the tush and hips.

Well, off to work. Again, hope all is well with everyone and have a

very Happy Easter.

Jerry

Marissa's Dad