February 12, 2016
Surgery #3
When the Doctor went in and released her rod her ribs actually kind of sprang apart a little bit so the rod was preventing her from stretching this time, which shows that she is growing. Good news! So he pushed her shoulder up and expanded the rod 8 mm. He is really happy with the outcome. He said that you can never actually catch up with something like this but if you can prevent it from getting worse that's really the goal and so far we are preventing from getting worse.  This will be the last time he can use this rod for an adjustment. The next time he will have to switch it out for another one. He wants to do her Vertebrae the next surgery. So she will have a rod along her spine as well as along her ribs that he will just adjust at the same time. He wants to get a ct scan done, he will discuss her at another conference,  and we will go back and see him in 6-8 weeks.