Update on Kodys tenotomy

[Guest guest]

Thank you everybody for your support and thoughts!

So this it how it went:

Kody was not allowed to eat for 4 hours before the tenotomy and

Dr. King didn't want anybody of us in the room (but I insisted that

my husband will stay).

They gave him two different kind of anesthetic (I don't know why)

and the whole procedure lasted like 15-20 min. Poor Kody screamed

the

whole time! The cast they put on looks terrible!!! They put soo much

padding under that it looks like an elephantfoot and it's one of the

worst cast they applied so far! Also pretty weird is that they ask

us

to come back next friday to change the cast???! on wednesday they

said the cast will stay on 3-4 weeks. Then on friday right after the

surgery they said 2 weeks and then he checked

later (30 min after the cast was put on) and said one week!!!

Another thing what happened last week is:

I send (finally)some pics (with and without cast)to Dr. Ponseti and

he called me back right away and said that Kody is one of the rare

cases with atypical clubfoot (Nobody else said something like that

to us before!!). That the treatment suppose to be a little bit

different: the angle is not suppose to be 70 degree but 40. And he

was telling me that the casts he saw on the pictures looked sloppy...

I was so confused when I went to that Dr. on Friday to let him cut

my little baby. I'm not very happy with this Dr. Dr. P strongly

recommended us to use the shoes for Kody and Dr King is

just so against it (my patients can not afford $400 for a pair of

shoes (he didn't even ask us if we can afford it or not!!!))

It's not very efficient if the Dr. is not supporting your opinion.

Please if somebody could tell me if any other Dr. changed the cast

after one week after the tenotomy. I can only imagine that this is

not a very good idea since the tendon is not healed yet there could

be probably a bigger damage to it, or not??

,

Kody 2/1/04 rt CF

Serendy 6/29/02