Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Well I finally decided to update my post but of course blogger won't allow me to upload any pictures at the moment. So hopefully later I will be able to get them done.
Anyway I thought I will still give a bit of an update of what has gone on with Jones since that last post. Well luckily that whole walking problem went away pretty quickly and he was back to being normal, thank heavens. But a month or so later I noticed that he has suddenly started to walk with his toes pointed in and it had become hard and painful for him to run. He could barely make it through a soccer game without walking/running like he was miserable. As you can imagine this freaked me out. So once again I took him to the doctor and without surprise she told me this was not normal. She looked at him at told me she thought he was flat footed and that he had a pronation and his tibia's were curving out. She referred me to two different doctors. One was a surgeon to determine weather or not it needed to be fixed through surgery or another doctor who was a specialist in dealing with this problem and said he would probably have to wear braces on his legs for awhile. So I decided to wait to go to a surgeon and just go to the other doctor. Well this new doctor looked him over and decided he wasn't flat footed but he did have a slight pronation and curved tibia's. She also said that it really wasn't a bad case and because it had just started and I noticed it early enough she thinks that if he wears some orthodics and does physical therapy it will be fixed within a year. Yay!! This was good news obviously. He has been wearing the inserts and doing exercises for about a month and it has already made a big difference. Hopefully it will be all taken care of and he will be back to normal soon.
Also while we were at his original doctor she was looking up some of his blood work and had noticed that when Jones had some blood work done back when he was sick and couldn't walk his white blood cell level had dropped to his lowest point. So every two weeks we have been going in for routine blood work to try and figure out what is going on. His levels have been going up but still not where they need to be. The doctor has been in touch with Primary Children's Hematology department and they don't seem too worried especially where he feels pretty good. So for now we will keep paying a ton of money for routine blood work just to be safe. Poor kid is always being poked, good thing it doesn't bother him to have it done.

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