4am 11/17/10
Xan is crying and ready to eat again. Kelv is sweet enough to take this feeding so Alene can pump and go back to sleep. Kelv feeds Xan and after putting him back to bed says to Alene:
Kelv: "Alene..."
Alene: "Mmmm hmmm?"
Kelv: "Xan's cast fell off."
Alene: (Much more awake now) "What? REALLY?!"
Kelv: "Yup."
Xan's little cast on the floor after Kelv found it.
(Poor Kelv! He was so tired that he heard something fall to the ground when he got Xan up to feed him, but didn't realize it was his cast until he put him back to bed. Got to love sleep deprived parents!)
How Xan looked 12 hours prior.
Xan's casting progress is going great!
His right leg has taken to the casting so well that it gets a break from casting this week! He may get next week off too depending on how good his position is after the stretches we do with him all week.
His left foot still needs quite a bit of work however. Last week didn't adjust quite as much as they expected and since the casting process didn't go as smoothly as well, his heel is much more callused and sore. Plus, when they were taking off his cast this week, they accidentally "burned" him with the cast saw. He had about a 1.5 inch red burn mark on the inside of his left foot which was bleeding a bit as well. It was pretty sad to experience as his mom, and I hope it doesn't bother him as much as it did yesterday, the rest of the week.
Left foot is a little smaller than the right foot.
One of my friends has a little guy with one club foot, and she mentioned how his casted foot is smaller than the non-casted foot now that he's moved onto the braces phase. So I checked it out today. And I think due to the angles they've had to cast his left foot, Xan's foot growth has been slowed a bit compared to the more "normal" angles the right foot has been allotted. We'll have to see how it changes.
Casts- Week 4 (take 1) He'll get recasted tomorrow!
Casts- Week 3
Casts- Week 2
Taking off his first set of casts, with the crazy cast saw. He was so good that week! Sadly this is the same saw that burned and cut him two weeks later. :-(
Big Brother Camden looks on during the casting.
(It was sort of a long appointment, so you'll notice the sucker in his mouth... we had to start bribing him to stay out of all the oh, so tempting medical equipment cupboards!)
Feet angles after 1 week of casts
Feet angles after 3 weeks of casting!
The right foot has almost entirely normal range already! Left foot has some work, but is doing better each week!
3 comments:
xan's feet are looking great after such a short time. i didn't know you would see such fast changing. life seems so busy for you with not only a newborn but all of the md visists. whew. hope you can sneek a nap here and there!
He's looking so great! That's so funny about it coming off in the night. You really dont' know much of what's going on in the middle of the night, so it doesn't surprise me at all :)
I can't wait to see him and hold him! He has changed so much in a month. Thanks for chronicling--it's time consuming enough just living it so I appreciate the sacrifice to write, photo and share!
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