thanks for the casting info

July 24, 2003

thanks Natasha and Debbie, I appreciate the response. We have just

about decided to go with the band. Ian's story is that he's 8

months this week. at about 3 months we noticed the flattening on

his right side behind his ear. but the dr said lets do some

stretching etc and see if it gets better. we tried repositioning

his head but it always ended up back on that right side. it did get

slightly better as time went on but still noticably flat. we were

getting nervous so we investigated the band ourselves.- we sort of

went about it backwards. we went for a doc band consultation, then

we went to a Dr. both of which said it is marginal, he could

probably benefit from it but they can't promise it will help but in

most cases will make it better than it is. However, since it is

really cosmetic it is really up to u. after those 2 appt we were

siding with the band. then we heard of one more dr in NY City so

we thought his opinion would be valuable. this Dr. even though he

believes in bands and perscribes them to several of his patients.

heavily discouraged us against it. saying that due to Ian's age the

amount of correctness that would happen, etc he really felt we

shouldn't do it.

after that meeting we were thoroughly confused. I just don't want

to regret not knowing that I did everything I could do to help make

Ian's head shape normal.

so that's where we are. we are just waiting to see if our insurance

will accept and if so at this point I think we will proceed.

thanks

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