Scoliosis & TLSO

Last Tuesday we went to Shriners to have Trinity seen by the Orthopedic Surgeon. Before he seen her he had an x-ray taken to look at Trinity's hips and her scoliosis. He found that her scoliosis had gone from a 38 degree curvature to 46 degrees. With that being said he felt that it was necessary to put Trinity in a TLSO (abdominal brace) to prevent the curvature from getting any worse. She will wear the brace everyday except when she eats and sleeps. The brace will have to be worn until she is old enough to do surgery and put rods in to help straighten out the curvature. The surgery would probably be done sometime in her early teens, unless the curvature gets worse and then they would look at doing something else which would involve a surgery every 6 months. So we are hoping that this works and keeps it from getting any worse. She will get her brace next Wednesday at Shriners. I took some pictures of them forming her for the brace. I will try to put them on later this week or next week when I post some with her new brace.

This will be a hard transition for Trinity and the family. I look at what all she has gone through so far and I know that this will probably be minor in HER eyes! I am so grateful that the brace will be of no cost to us because we are having it done at Shriners. It takes such a burden off of our shoulders when we know that we don't have to worry about the expense of the brace, especially since she will need one everytime she grows out of the old one.

Trinity's PT also brought over a new high chair that will work with her chair from Shriners. This way she can sit at the table with us while we eat and she can play at the table. She really enjoys this!

PRAISE: Trinity has not vomited in over a week!!! We are praying that the problem has been fixed or maybe God (the GREAT physician) performed a miracle!