Re: Kids, surgery, bracing

[Guest guest]

My Mom believed doctors were God-like. So she wouldn't get a second opinion even

when he asked her to get one. I was 7 at the time and remember thinking " hey get

a second opinion like the doctor asked.

[Guest guest]

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Very well said. I used to think that my surgery was done too soon

also. However, now I see that it did in fact help immensely, but

this was only soft tissue tendon surgery, nothing with the bones. I

feel it has kept me out of AFOs and prevented foot drop too.

Although having surgery as a kid certainly makes us 'instant adults'

in a strange way, don't you think. With both feet operated on at the

same time during one summer, at least I only had to have one

anesthetic.

We're all different, adults and children, with our CMT needs.

Getting several opinions on surgery is an absolute. Surgery will not

take away foot pain, (my feet still 'burn') but surgery can correct

something like the foot 'roll' I had. And my surgery did exactly

this.

I only wish I had known about in-shoe orthotics back then, since

they give great support to my arches and allow me to easily walk

heel-toe, not my 'normal' or 'fatigue' walk of 'toe-heel'.

I was lucky, I had a good doctor who gave me the right surgery; even

back then, Mom and Dad got 3 opinions on my feet: 2 orthopedists and

1 neurosurgeon (friend of the family Dad went to school with)

~ Gretchen