«
»

December 29th, 2007

Update December 2007

Jacob and Rachel flew to Baltimore on the 16th of December from Denver. Jacob had surgery the following morning to remove his fixator and a pin was placed at the top of his femur to stabilize it. Two hour later the surgery was a success and a removable cast was applied to Jacob’s leg. Dr. Paley gave us the thumbs up to return to Colorado the following morning just in time for Christmas. The cast is removable so that Jacob can shower which is very nice. We are all home as a family and enjoying the snow including sledding out our front door! The cast has to stay on until the 8th of January and then therapy starts again, slowly at first, to regain full movement of Jacob’s knee. Right now he is at 60 degrees and he will ultimately be at 100-110 degrees, by June 2008.

katzfam2007.jpg

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from the Colorado Katz Family! Jacob is wearing the cast under his pants and you wouldn’t even know it! The best present of all this year is a longer leg for Jacob! We thank God for blessing Jacob with a longer leg!

This entry was posted on Saturday, December 29th, 2007 at 1:23 pm and is filed under Updates. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Update December 2007”

Kelly Breaux said:

My daughter born at 28 weeks, caught MRSA in the NICU. Ultimately the infection damaged her growth plates and her right leg is already 2 inches shorter. She will be 3 in october.We are going see dr paley on June 9th and I need some heads up. I just want to know from a mother to a mother how this effected ya’ll life. I have Emma’s story that i want to email to you. Also, I seen that he did surgeries on younger children. Is there a reason that he waited until Jacob was 6 to perform the surgery. I guess it is depends on the case. Our sugeon in New Orleans, two hours east of us told us the only option was amputation. I did not except the diagnosis and instanly became proactive to find a doctor that could help Emma. Any advice would help.

May 19th, 2008 at 2:43 pm

admin said:

Dear Kelly,

I wonder how things are going. You can send me an email at my regular email naturallytreeated@earthlink.net when you have a chance.

Best wishes,

Rachel
http://ourherojacob.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=102#comments-form

January 9th, 2009 at 5:48 pm