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Busy, busy, busy....

Just wanted to drop in and update a little.

Tomorrow I have an appointment with one of the Ped Orthos who

originally consulted with us regarding Annika. He has followed her

progress somewhat and this will be our 3rd (maybe 4th) visit to him

following her cast removal in June of 1999. I was somewhat suprised

that he actually responded to my call about making an appointment;

but he did.

Annika continues to do smashingly well. Her feet look awesome to me

and we are approaching size 5 in the straigh-last shoes now.

I had my 2nd ultrasound today ( I am 22 weeks along ) and they got a

good look at the feet this time. Looks like we have STRAIGHT ONES!!!

Yea!! I, of course, will not be able to be relieved of that until

baby is born and I know for 'sure'. Also, looks like we will now

have THREE little princesses in this house. Kirsten was a little

disappointed that it's not a boy...but she's already prepared with a

name for her little sister. Everything else with baby seems to check

out just great and that is always a relief to hear.

Also, the technician who did the U.S. was VERY interested to hear

about Dr. Ponseti and I " JUST HAPPENED " to have the article from the

Des Moines Register with Audilet's story (WHICH by the way is

an AWESOME, AWESOME article!!!) The tech asked lots of questions and

when the Perinatologist came in to do his thing, the tech said " Hey,

Doc. you gotta check this guy out... " and went on to grab the paper

from my hubby and expound how 'this guy' corrects club-foot " Non-

Surgically AND he's 86! " and the Perinatologists response was " You're

Kidding?! " He then asked a few questions (standard...why don't more

doctors do it etc....) but, he was VERY receptive and asked to have

the web address for the U of I and thankgoodness it was printed

right there in the article. Was actually caught off guard that a

doctor was actually interested...Ha!

Well, I didn't have time to look over everything that's been

happening with everyone but hope everyone is doing OK.

Lori Stime