We have been getting Carter's club feet taken care of lately. He has been doing really well and we are hoping that he reaches 100% without surgery. We were fortunate to find a doctor in Cedar that could do part of the casts. It helped save us about a month and a half worth of visits up north. We have had to go up to Salt Lake to get the last few castings done by the spina bifida doctors.
We went up to Salt Lake a few weeks ago to do an X-Ray on his bladder to make sure that he didn't have reflux in his bladder. If this happens it means that the urine is going back up into his bladder which can cause infections. This is not happening at the moment but we still have to keep checking to make sure that it is not happening. We will check again at 6 months to make sure he is still OK.
While we were up doing his test I had a slight problem. I was a little late to going into his test because we had driven up from Cedar City that morning and I hadn't had breakfast. So I ran down to the cafeteria to get some breakfast. While I was gone they got taken in so when I got up there they brought me in a little late. When I got in there you have to put on a jumpsuit and the magnet chest piece to protect yourself. I put this on over my coat and everything which was a bad decision. A couple minutes in I was standing there and was getting really hot. I didn't know what was going on. I asked them if I could go out and take off my coat because I was really hot. They said ya, the nurse took me out and said she would get me some water. As soon as she left I felt like I was going down. So I just leaned against the wall and slid down it. I almost fainted, I was so embarrassed. It was in the main surgery corridor so all these people kept coming by and were all asking if I was OK. Here we were with our son who is sick and I am the one getting attention. Apparently this happens a lot because of the test, and you being worried about your child. But it didn't help the embarrassment of it happening.
With the last cast that we did on his feet they had to clip his Achilles. We thought this was going to be a big process but the just do it in office. They use a numbing paste and we walked around for 45 minutes. Then they take him back and give him a shot to numb it up a little more. It takes about 3 minutes per foot. He makes a slight incision along the Achilles to release the pressure and then he casts around that. It went really well.
We have a few more cast changes before he will be out of the casts and into braces. But hopefully he will be 100% and we will not have to do surgery on either of his feet.
