Guest guest Posted March 14, 2001 Report Share Posted March 14, 2001 In a message dated 3/14/01 5:51:52 AM Pacific Standard Time, pettice@... writes: Tammy, I was wandering through the files and I noticed that 's birth pictures resemble Conor's in that one side of the head is higher. Did your treatment correct that? - We''ve been in the DOC and STAR. Truthfully, I think a full helmet would have been the way to go! Like Marci! It is too hard to hold the wide/shorter side and allow room to grow on the narrow side. The narrow side of his head, the back side is where we developed flatness from the tort, always sleeping in the same position. He wasn't born flat in back. Been a very difficult head to correct and although we've had some correction, spending 6+ months in a band, very frustrating! I've plotted this all out in my head again if it happens again. Start young, 4 months, and get a full helmet to passively grow into. That is what I think would work best for a head like? Anyone else? So no, not corrected but some. The roundness in back looks great. That was really easy to correct. Try to apply pressure to the wider/shorter side of head and allow room for growth on the narrow side, tough! Tammy & 12/8/99 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 14, 2001 Report Share Posted March 14, 2001 I > have a question for those of you that have graduated...Did your children's > heads round out evenly on top? Belinda (and 's mom, Tammy, too): We're graduating in about three weeks (Conor is 17 months old; he will have worn his helmet for four months). Although we've had some nice rounding of the back of Conor's head and a significant diminishment of frontal bossing, the right side of Conor's head continues to be higher than the left side. We were told that there was nothing the helmet could do about that because there was no way to anchor the helmet over the higher spot. Is this what you're describing, Belinda? Conor also has a fairly obvious division between the bones in front of his ears (along a line over his head ear to ear), but so does my husband, so that hasn't bothered me. But the front set of bones shows this unevenness (the back bones have gotten much more equal in height). Tammy, I was wandering through the files and I noticed that 's birth pictures resemble Conor's in that one side of the head is higher. Did your treatment correct that? And anyone else--I'm interested, too, in finding out whether treatment made a difference in rounding out the top of the head--and whether hair growth (which we're waiting on still) really is able to hide the asymmetry. Also--I'm having to see our original ped this afternoon because of a bad cold/yukky drainage from Conor's ears--he received tubes last Friday. I couldn't get an appointment with her partner, the doc I've switched to. Please send calm thoughts my way. I intend to tell her how upset I am that she failed to send us to the neurosurgeon in time to do a complete job of treating Conor's plagio. I hope I can do so without getting emotional. , Conor's mom, central PA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 14, 2001 Report Share Posted March 14, 2001 , I'm sorry that your ped didn't seem responsive to your statements. I think the writing a letter thing is a good idea. That way you get everything you want to say across without having to fight your way through the overwhelming emotions! Whatever you decide to do, getting some closure is a good idea. Good luck! Marci (Mom to ) Oklahoma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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