Ben's update

I was panicking about running 7 minutes late for his appointment at 11.45 today. Trying to get 3 kids out of the door and a 10-15 minute walk will do that. Got him checked in, made our way to the clinic and they had up on the board that the consultant was approx 1 hour behind. Noooo! I've mentioned a time or two how Jack is when he is out, no fun! I had no money or anything to buy the kids a drink/snack. At 1.30 (!!!!!!!!!) we get called in, I was ready to explode.

Not a great day. He spent quite a while feeling his feet and I suppose checking where everything is internally (tendons, etc) and says we are literally back to square one. He says even with an extensive surgery now he might not be fully correctable so he wants to begin the treatment again. I was expecting to go in and be told we'll be going for a tendon transfer op so I was gutted.

As we're away over the weekend, I'll have to ring to check availability next week. He won't get in any physio help because there will be no point... starting treatment again means he has to go back into plaster casts, both legs, up to top of his thighs :(. He hasn't been in casts since last year so I don't know how he'll deal with that.

That will be weekly cast changes for up to 3 months (his next appointment) and then probably another tenotomy op on each heel (cut the tendon). Then more casts for 6 weeks and see where he is from then. This was all supposed to be fixed. Any clubfoot website you look at gives you the "this is the most common congenital birth defect, easily correctable, blah blah blah". Not my kids :(

If that is the plan he's going to into January before he even gets all the casts off and he's 2 in February. If his feet are still not straight, what does that mean for his development? I can't imagine how this is going to affect him at this age (the loss of mobility as he'll probably not be able to crawl easily with them on).

Anyway, that doesn't change the fact that he is the most adorable little tyke!

I'll post more of these mud pictures later, lol. All I can say back turned for literally 20 seconds and this was the result, but this shows why he can't stand/walk currently.