Post by jules003 on Sept 9, 2010 1:45:37 GMT -5
Hi all,
my son, Ryan is nearly 11 and was diagnosed with Perthes in May this year. His orthapaedic surgeon saw him with xrays soon after diagnosis and wanted to watch him for a month and see what was happening. His ROM was great the first time, the 2nd time not as good and the 3rd visit on 5th August, he took 1 look at his new xrays and checked his ROM and immediately phoned Princess Margaret Hospital in Perth and he went in that day. He was put in bucks boots traction for 12 days and then had an arthrogram, a tenotomy and a femoral oesteotomy! He had an epidural and a catheter. The epidural was the best thing because he felt no pain, the only thing that he hated was the catheter, cos it was so wrong he said!!!
He was in hospital for another 4 days then home on crutches and a wheelchair. He's doing very well so far, i'm making sure he does his exercises. He hasn't been back to school yet and probably wont go until next term now as kids can be extremely silly and we couldn't go through everything that we have for him to fall at school and stuff it up.
We have another hospital appointment on the 28th Sept, then we will probably start going back to the specialist.
The thing that annoys me with the Drs, is that they aren't very giving with info and they hate you looking up on the internet. T me, if they aren't going to offer the info, i'll look elsewhere.
What i have learnt is that they are all individuals and depending on age, sex and involvement and what country even, as to what treatment is offered!
Anyway, i thought i'd just introduce myself and tell my story so far, and if anyone has any advice, especially longer term and children my sons age with a femoral oesteotomy, i would love to hear from you.
Julia
my son, Ryan is nearly 11 and was diagnosed with Perthes in May this year. His orthapaedic surgeon saw him with xrays soon after diagnosis and wanted to watch him for a month and see what was happening. His ROM was great the first time, the 2nd time not as good and the 3rd visit on 5th August, he took 1 look at his new xrays and checked his ROM and immediately phoned Princess Margaret Hospital in Perth and he went in that day. He was put in bucks boots traction for 12 days and then had an arthrogram, a tenotomy and a femoral oesteotomy! He had an epidural and a catheter. The epidural was the best thing because he felt no pain, the only thing that he hated was the catheter, cos it was so wrong he said!!!
He was in hospital for another 4 days then home on crutches and a wheelchair. He's doing very well so far, i'm making sure he does his exercises. He hasn't been back to school yet and probably wont go until next term now as kids can be extremely silly and we couldn't go through everything that we have for him to fall at school and stuff it up.
We have another hospital appointment on the 28th Sept, then we will probably start going back to the specialist.
The thing that annoys me with the Drs, is that they aren't very giving with info and they hate you looking up on the internet. T me, if they aren't going to offer the info, i'll look elsewhere.
What i have learnt is that they are all individuals and depending on age, sex and involvement and what country even, as to what treatment is offered!
Anyway, i thought i'd just introduce myself and tell my story so far, and if anyone has any advice, especially longer term and children my sons age with a femoral oesteotomy, i would love to hear from you.
Julia
