Dr Ponseti's reply about Kai

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I am floored and I think I am going to be ill. I sent Dr P a message

detailing Kai's frequent relapses to see if he had and ideas ... I got

his reply today (Saturday, I should have known it would be bad.) Here

is what he said:

" Kai is the only one with complex clubfoot deformities that I remember

who has had so many relapses of the cavus. Most of these feet tend to

get much better after one year of age and really their feet look

normal. I don't know if we can do any more for Kai than what Dr. Mosca

is doing. "

He went on to say that if we wanted we could bring him to Iowa and he

would try ... but that was it.

What are we going to do if it keeps relapsing?? I guess we will have

to consider having lengthenings done on the tendon and ligament that

are so problematic. I have known that it was possible ... but seeing

it from Dr P himself that he knows nothing like it and implying -

without actually saying so - that surgery is the next step ... oh god.