ETHAN'S PRE-OP [Dada Update]

Last week Ethan meet with Dr. Merek and Dr. Waters who are both orthopedic specialists at Children’s for the feet and hands respectively.

With regards to the feet, no new news which is good since it validates everything we’ve heard form Dr. Upton – his feet should be fine and there doesn’t seem to be the need to do anything. He’ll be able to run, walk, etc. and how well will all depend on his mental development. He repeated what Dr. Upton said regarding the fee in that he’ll fit into normal shoes and will probably have one or two calices under his feet from the unusual bone growth there.

Dr. Waters was exactly of the same opinion as Dr. Upton and obviously knew him well saying Upton had worked on many Apert’s cases.
We are keeping Dr. Waters on our list of doctors as we have yet to figure out if we can financially cover Dr. Upton since he does not carry our insurance. We should be ok but it’s always good to have a plan B. I’m also thinking of keeping the foot orthopedist on the list, more because he’s an orthopedist than anything else.


PRE-OP CONSULT
There really weren't any tests done so everything went “clinically” well. However, they needed to draw blood to test before the surgery and poked Ethan several times with no success. That means we’ll need to go back to try and draw blood in a quantity they can use. HEY YOU...STOP POKING MY NEPHEW....IF YOU'RE GONNA DO IT JUST GET THE DARN BLOOD AND LEAVE HIM ALONE!!!! - Hoping that will do the job.