Anya’s scoliosis surgery went well. The recovery time was
longer than I had anticipated; I had been told that little kids usually got
back into the groove pretty quickly. Anya refused to try to walk for two weeks
after surgery, if we tried to put her on her feet she would pull them up at the
knees so she couldn’t stand. However, she did decide to do this:
And then she wanted to go to the park and climb on the rock
wall:
So I ruled out that she had some kind of weakness issue, and
after talking to the orthopedic NP several times we figured she had to do her
own thing. Now she wants to walk everywhere, before she would get tired and
need to be carried. Her favorite thing is going down to Main Street and walking
among the stores.
She is so much straighter than she was! At her follow up
they told me she had gone from a 74 degree curve to a 34 degree curve, a 40
degree improvement! In January they will start the lengthening, and that will
straighten her out further. She will lay on her stomach and a device will lengthen
the rod with a magnet. They will do this every few months until she outgrows
this rod in a few years, and then she will get a longer one placed.
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| Before |
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| After! |
She is avoiding so
much surgery with this MAGEC rod! With typical growing rods you have to have
surgery a couple times a year and that would be very difficult or even
dangerous for Anya. I am so thankful MAGEC was available to her, and she had an
excellent surgeon to place them. Most scoliosis patients aren’t three years
old, we are so fortunate to live close to a pediatric hospital like Childrens,
that has so many specialists.
Praise him from who all blessings flow!
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