Cerebral Palsy

I feel this was the reason the surgery on his heels did not work.

He stumbled and fell many times because he could not walk straight.

My daughter was due to take him back to Shriners when he was 17 years old.One morning while I was sitting in my family room, he came from his bedroom to go to the bathroom.

He had sleeping shorts on.

I saw something the doctors had not seen (due to my grandson not wearing shorts while out at the hospital before many times) so I saw him from the back.

I saw his knees almost touching his calves, bowing outward and down to his feet almost together.I wrote a letter a week before they left and asked the doctors if they had the time to watch him walk from them or toward them (in shorts).

There were three doctors who watched him walk.

Immediately they set up a date for surgery.

They cut about four inches above the knee practically cutting his leg in two.

They turned the knee around, which also turned his foot straight.He has a steel brace and steel screws in that area that he will wear the rest of his life.

No, he is not completely well, but I am very thankful to the Shriners for their help.

I was with them every time they went except when they had him to walk one time at the beginning of his ordeal.The Shriners had a van and a lunch for us and drove us to the Children’s Ho...

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