We visit the doc on Thursday and I have been trying to look up articles and info without alot of luck. So I thought I would ask you all to chime in.
1) M 's body looks like a question mark. Stomach is out like a 2 month pregrancy. Hump over her right shoulder noticable -neck shortened and chin jutting out. I have read about flatback, artheorisis sp? but I don't know if they fit in here. I have also read about ostemoies sp? Not alot of information. Does anybody have any experience with any of this?
2) Our insurance only covers our state. So no out of state consults. Our doc has all the qualifications but young and in the beginning really really nice.But we do have questioons with the revision surgery failure and how he handled the two revision surgeries. I think the next surgery will be a fairly new surgery for him. He doesn't believe in taking out instrumentation. We can go to another hospital an hour away, not as pretigious, where one of his students works. He has no experience in revision but has the year long fellowship. Another older docotor doesn't have the fellowship but belongs to everything and has done revision surgery.
3) Maddie likes him. He has done wonders in working with her and she has matured beautifuly and handling all of this very well. She really deosn't want to do another consult. Hated the last one who suggested surgery. She wanted to wait it out in hopes of keeping the instrumentation in. She was afraid, as was the doc, what would happen with the instrumentation removed.
Any thoughts on going or staying the course?
Any questions I should be asking?
Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1) M 's body looks like a question mark. Stomach is out like a 2 month pregrancy. Hump over her right shoulder noticable -neck shortened and chin jutting out. I have read about flatback, artheorisis sp? but I don't know if they fit in here. I have also read about ostemoies sp? Not alot of information. Does anybody have any experience with any of this?
2) Our insurance only covers our state. So no out of state consults. Our doc has all the qualifications but young and in the beginning really really nice.But we do have questioons with the revision surgery failure and how he handled the two revision surgeries. I think the next surgery will be a fairly new surgery for him. He doesn't believe in taking out instrumentation. We can go to another hospital an hour away, not as pretigious, where one of his students works. He has no experience in revision but has the year long fellowship. Another older docotor doesn't have the fellowship but belongs to everything and has done revision surgery.
3) Maddie likes him. He has done wonders in working with her and she has matured beautifuly and handling all of this very well. She really deosn't want to do another consult. Hated the last one who suggested surgery. She wanted to wait it out in hopes of keeping the instrumentation in. She was afraid, as was the doc, what would happen with the instrumentation removed.
Any thoughts on going or staying the course?
Any questions I should be asking?
Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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