Sunday, January 11, 2009

Getting Addison's feet fixed

Addison was born with Club Feet, and when she was 4 years old she had surgery in China. Even though we are thankful for the surgery that she had we don't feel that it was a success. She still walks with some problems. We took her to a specialist when we first came home with her a little over a year ago and he told us he could do some repairs but, there was no hurry. We decided to wait until she was with us for awhile and gained a little weight. (She was so tiny when we got her). We have decided to go ahead and put this behind us and fix what can be fixed on her feet. We have an appointment in the morning, Jan. 12th at Akron Children's Hospital to see when and what is going to be done. I really hate to put her through this but, I think she will thank us when she gets a little older. I will post more later on what the Dr. had to say.



You can see she can't put her heels down. The right one is actually up about 2 inches.
When she walks, her left foot turns in alot. The Dr. told us the first time we seen him that he could take some bone out of one side of her foot and put it in the other so her foot then that would straighten her foot out .



1 comment:

  1. Thanks so much for sending me your new blog addy. I had lost it. It was good to see that the girls are doing so well. Hope all goes well with Addison's dr. appt.
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