Posted on 02/03/2013 12:00:10 PM PST by Kaslin
I was born with a club foot in 1960 - still have one of the casts they used - about the size of my thumb. I was just telling my mom how I remember her doing my foot exercizes to me every night when I was a toddler. (She would hold my foot and push it in and hold it, release, do it again and again and again.) And how patient she was and how she kept at it night after night.
In my Junior year of High School I took 10th in State in skiing - both my mom and dad were in tears. They said when I was born they, or the doctors, did not know if I would even be able to walk properly.
And because of that, they should be aborted?
This is a sweet very positive Life story (thank you); and wow, does this baby boy have a powerful name or what? And, hey, are those footballs on DP’s suit? Your first Super Bowl Dominic! (Our first son’s first Super Bowl was in 1986... da Bears...) :)
Have you read any of my other posts on this thread?
No—you didn’t say that—that was the subject of the article we are discussing.
No—you didn’t say that—that was the subject of the article we are discussing.
Read post # 5.
I read it—and all of them. The only thing I took issue was the premise that either club foot or cleft palate was a “minor” condition.
I’m not arguing with you, Swampsniper—I don’t know how we got crossed up.
You are one of my favorite freepers.
Mari
It depends on the type of clubbed foot. In the case of tendons pulling the foot inward, where the baby was essentially forced to sitting indian style in the womb and then had the feet pushed upward, casting for months may work. For cases where the bones themselves formed at an angle, yes, surgery is necessary.
If you go to China and walk the streets, you will not see one mentally-retarded person. You will see no one in wheel-chairs, you will see no extremely short, nor will you see any deformed people. Given the "one-child" policy, as well as famine as recently as 50 years ago, anyone with suspected birth-defects was considered a "useless eater." Not only were they all aborted, they were killed after birth as well.
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