a:3:{s:4:"date";s:0:"";s:5:"title";s:15:"Schedule Change";s:7:"details";s:2648:"Peyton’s surgery is pushed back to Spring/Summer 2025! After speaking more with Peyton’s surgeon, he feels that this may seem rushed and doesn’t like that feeling. We have known from the beginning that Peyton has some issues with her hip. The doctors told us it was hip dysplasia. They had her in a pavlik harness for a few weeks when she was a little over a month old, which did give her more rotation/ flexibility with that right hip but did not solve the issue. Basically Peyton’s hip socket is too shallow to hold the ball joint into place. So her surgeon has discussed an MRI in the past. Well the past has become the present. They are pushing the surgery back to take a look at the hip first. Instead of the knee fusion and syme amputation on September 11th. Peyton will be put under sedation to get through an MRI on September 30th. They will then take her into the operating room to place a needle into her hip and place some contrast in there (Arthrogram). Her surgeon will then take a look under a microscope to get the absolute best idea as to what needs to be done to help her out. If they were to go through with the Syme amputation now, there is a chance that her leg could end up being too short for a prosthetic later on. If they were to do the knee fusion, because her leg is still so small, she wouldn’t have the ability to get a prosthetic with a knee joint. So… that’s only going to set her back which we obviously do not want. We don’t know the EXACT schedule for surgery yet. But as of right now: Friday, September 13th we will be meeting with Gillettes Prosthesis team and Peyton will be molded for a foot on foot prosthesis. (Her foot would be on a platform and an extension would be attached to another foot on the floor so she can start being active. This girl wants to walk SO bad!).It does take a few weeks to get that prosthetic done though so we would need to travel back to get that as well. But hoping it will be done when we go for her MRI on the 30th! After her surgeon gets a good look at her hip we will be discussing surgery to fix that. We would then be doing the Syme Amputation and hip surgery together around 20-24months of age and the knee fusion at a later time to let her grow a little bit more. I know, this is so much information to take in at once. I tried to not miss any details so everyone knows just as much as we do. This change of schedule threw us off a bit but honestly, we are comfortable with this plan as it just means the group of surgeons discussing our baby girls case is taking this as seriously as possible and coming up with the absolute best solution.";}

Schedule Change

Peyton’s surgery is pushed back to Spring/Summer 2025!

After speaking more with Peyton’s surgeon, he feels that this may seem rushed and doesn’t like that feeling. We have known from the beginning that Peyton has some issues with her hip. The doctors told us it was hip dysplasia. They had her in a pavlik harness for a few weeks when she was a little over a month old, which did give her more rotation/ flexibility with that right hip but did not solve the issue. Basically Peyton’s hip socket is too shallow to hold the ball joint into place. So her surgeon has discussed an MRI in the past. Well the past has become the present. They are pushing the surgery back to take a look at the hip first. Instead of the knee fusion and syme amputation on September 11th. Peyton will be put under sedation to get through an MRI on September 30th. They will then take her into the operating room to place a needle into her hip and place some contrast in there (Arthrogram). Her surgeon will then take a look under a microscope to get the absolute best idea as to what needs to be done to help her out.
If they were to go through with the Syme amputation now, there is a chance that her leg could end up being too short for a prosthetic later on. If they were to do the knee fusion, because her leg is still so small, she wouldn’t have the ability to get a prosthetic with a knee joint. So… that’s only going to set her back which we obviously do not want.

We don’t know the EXACT schedule for surgery yet.
But as of right now:
Friday, September 13th we will be meeting with Gillettes Prosthesis team and Peyton will be molded for a foot on foot prosthesis. (Her foot would be on a platform and an extension would be attached to another foot on the floor so she can start being active. This girl wants to walk SO bad!).It does take a few weeks to get that prosthetic done though so we would need to travel back to get that as well. But hoping it will be done when we go for her MRI on the 30th!

After her surgeon gets a good look at her hip we will be discussing surgery to fix that. We would then be doing the Syme Amputation and hip surgery together around 20-24months of age and the knee fusion at a later time to let her grow a little bit more.

I know, this is so much information to take in at once. I tried to not miss any details so everyone knows just as much as we do. This change of schedule threw us off a bit but honestly, we are comfortable with this plan as it just means the group of surgeons discussing our baby girls case is taking this as seriously as possible and coming up with the absolute best solution.