Her DD has scolosis (curviture of the spine), in addition to that she was born with 2 ribs fused on one side, and a gap on the other side where the rib should be, plus and extra "bit" (that no-one else has).
It's meant she has regular operations - first one was to straighten the spine and put a bar in to help her grow straight, the subsequent ones have been either to lengthen the bar, or to put a new one in.
It's recommended that these operations happen every 4-6 months, but the NHS seems to take the longer line and does them every 6 months.
However, it's such a specialised lot of equipment that's used that there's only 2 (irrc) lots of it around the country and obviously not many surgeons around to do it. Fair enough means that the dates may change.
They left her waiting 8 months for her last operation (bar replacement - which is a bigger operation) and not only was she in pain, she wasn't growing straight either (she's 4yrs old btw - so rapid growth atm).
They promised her that it wouldn't be a huge wait again and provisionally had her booked in for the 6th May (which will be just under 6 months since her last op).
Today she's found out the the op has been cancelled and probably won't happen until mid-July which will be another 8 months since her last operation.
She, naturally, is devestated that it's going to be another huge wait and I feel totally useless, and angry on her behalf. Her DD is good friends with my DS2 so I see her lots and last time she had the wait I saw how difficult it was for both of them. The DD was in pain and absolutely shattered constantly fighting her curving spine in a bid to walk straight (at first glance she looked like she was "straight" but a closer look you could see that one side of her body was dropping down - but she compensates for it).
Her mum (my BF) was drained as well, and now she's going to have to go through the whole thing again.
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FAQinglovely · 20/04/2009 19:25
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