Tara's hip

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Hi again!

Recently we saw for the 1st time, a pediatric orthopedic. I mentioned to

him that I have felt Tara's hip dislocating, or " subluxing " . He examined

her completely, and even tried to dislocate her hip himself with manual

pressure, but, didn't do it. We did do x-rays, which were fine. He felt

that if it continues he would like to bring her to the OR and while she

was " under " see how easy her hip subluxes, and if it does, he would cast

her from the lower chest down for SIX WEEKS! YIKES! I'm so worrired over

this! Because, I feel her hip going in and out of it's socket lots of

times during the day, when she sits in my lap and we are reading, she'll

try to squarm out, and I can feel it move out then, sometimes when I'm

changing her, and holding her ankles up high and again she's squarming,

it pops out then.........my skin just crawls and I get sick to my

stomach, and I'm an X-Ray Technologist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PLUS how can this be a cure, she'll always have low tone, and lax

joints! Casting her for 6 weeks won't cure her lax joints, it will only

stabalize of freeze her hips for that long!

PLUS, she initiates going to the potty once in a while, how in the heck

will she sit on a potty then???

PLUS we are right in the middle of transitioning from EI to pre-school

for this March. The CST will be going to her school by mid-January and

I'm composing her " Tara book " right now. She won't be able to do any PT

for 6 weeks, at home or school. She won't beable to show this new school

what she can do.............I haven't called the ortho back yet for him

to re-eval her........I'm too scared........

Anyone with any insight to this? Anyone ever " hear " of this before.

I do know of one Mom with 4 kids, and her last two, as infants, had hip

displasia, and was casted exactly like that, chest down, for 6 weeks,

BUT they were infants!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and didn't have low tone and lax

joints!!

THanks

Gail.......Bobby 7 3/4, Jillian 5, and Tara{DS} 2 yrs. & 9 mos.