Evan's 3rd cast in Erie

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Hello!

We got back last night from a quick (10 day early) trip to Erie.

Evan's cast had gotten really tight over the weekend so we

rescheduled his cast for yesterday. We got his cast cut off here on

Monday AM, his skin looked basically good, except for at the bottom

of the cast on his tummy, it looked really bad. Dr. just put

some 2% hydrocortisone on it. Evan loved the bathtime and the

swimming pool at the hotel (at 10:30 at night, b/c that's when we

got there!).

His casting went well and Dr. told us that his is

progressing well, that the rotation was being addressed. He said

Evan started out in May in his first cast at a severe level of

rotation and now it was mild to moderate, so that sounds so good to

me! I could tell a huge difference this time, he seemed stronger and

straighter. His shoulders still showed a lot of asymmetry and I

asked Dr. about that- he said he wasn't sure why they looked

so asymmetrical. He was at 19 degres in his last cast and out of it

yesterday he was at 24. Dr. didn't do another in cast x-ray,

but thinks he is close to 15 in his third cast(but there is a 5

degree variance). He said if his skin continued to look so bad in

the warm weather as it did out of this cast that we may have to

consider a month off. He said we may loose some ground, but that we

had to give the skin time to heal and Evan feel good, he said, " We

are trying to correct these kids, not torture them!). Hope we don't

have to do that-----

So just wanted to let you all know. I'll try and post some pics to

the group later on today if the kids take a good nap for me.

Hope you all are well-thanks again for all of your continued support-

this support system through this group and ISOP is completely

wonderful.

and Evan