iel's first visit, very good news!

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Hi All,

Just wanted to let everyone know how iel's first check up at the Spokane

Shriner's turned out. We recieved two sets of very good news. Shriner's did

their own x-rays and it turns out iel's Cobb angle is only 29.1 degrees

not the 40 degrees we were originally told by the Base doctor. Dr. T didn't

measure the RVAD because he thought it was very low from looking at the x-ray.

He also told us there's very little rotation in iel's spine. Dr. T seems

to think there's a good chance of self correction. I'm not crazy about having

to " watch and wait " so I really hope he's not just selling us sunshine here. He

did say we were really well informed and asked where we found all the

information we had with us, so I told him about the ISOP website and the CAST

group. He told us how great it was that we'd found you all.

And the other piece of really good news is that Spokane Shriner's does have the

table to do Mehta cating. When Dr. T arrived about 4 years ago he was already

trained in Mehta casting and got them to get a table and got Dr. C to get

trained on it too. So even if iel's curve does progress we can get the

treatment we want without having to travel.