Guest guest Posted April 23, 2003 Report Share Posted April 23, 2003 We're on our 4th cast with Portland Shriners and Dr. Sussman who is on Dr. Ponseti's website. Last week we were told a couple more casts, this week he says 2 or 3 more casts and her foot doesn't seem terribly more corrected than it did last week or the week before. Maybe I'm just not seeing it right. I've got pics from last week and this so I can do some comparisons but I have yet to load them onto the puter. It seems the greatest degree of correction came from the first cast but what do I know? This is all new to me. The correction is absolutely going further each cast she gets, this time she's flexed up more and way out to the side although I do not know the degree. She's getting high leg plaster casts (so high it's hard to keep her diapers away from them and they get poopy if we're not careful) which is supposed to be better but since she got so much correction from her first soft cast I wonder if it wasn't ok to go with that. After looking at the pics of Darbi's foot Dr. Ponseti said she'd need 4 casts and possible heel tenotomy. Last week we were told by Dr. Sussman she probably wouldn't need the HT, this week he didn't mention it either way. I'm pretty sure they do a lot of CF children there, I met another mom yesterday morning who had a baby with bilateral CF who was on her 5th cast and ready for the HT but since she was sick she wasn't getting it yet. Darbi's CF is supposed to be *mild* and her foot was very flexible in the first place (it isn't now BTW, she's pretty stiff after being in casts). I'm curious if I should be concerned. We switched to this Ponseti Method Dr. after the first cast but I was hoping for a different result. I mentioned that it seemed to be going slowly and the Dr. said it was going just fine. If anyone wants to look at the pics from last week and this week I can send them directly. Maybe I'm just being paranoid or expecting too much. Maybe after the initial correction it is too gradual for me to notice> Maybe I'm just a dolt and there is good correction that I'm missing? I also know that it's not that easy to diagnose and prescribe an accurate treatment for someone you've only seen pictures of so what Dr. Ponseti said may need to be modified. Kori Mamma of Kenton 6/18/98 Merek (Maki) 3/5/00 Darbi Ruth 3/28/03 http://www.users.qwest.net/~frogabog/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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