What's wrong with his back?
As I walk up the stairs to my office at work I am immediately taken back to a year ago this same time. I was wearing the same shoes; a black pair of flip flops, the only shoes at the time I could fit on my barely recognizable swollen feet. I was about 8.5 months pregnant with my 3rd baby and wanting summer to hurry along so I could meet my little bundle of joy. Fast forward to today, climbing those same stairs, wearing those same shoes I am again finding myself hurrying summer along. This time for a different reason. For a treatment plan.
Three days after our vacation to the happiest place on earth we were in the doctors office and being sent for x-rays of his spine. The next morning we got a phone call for our Pediatrician. He said it was Infantile Scoliosis. Most likely 15-18 years of care/treatment. There will always be bumps and turns in the road we travel in life...this for sure was one of them possibly a bump and turn but nevertheless we will continue on living and loving life.
Scoliosis is a curvature of the spine. You typically hear about this in older children near adolescence. This is not something that is screened for in the doctor's office at such a young age and is usually discovered at home. Infantile scoliosis is considered to be a rare diagnosis...1 in 10,000 children are diagnosed with it and of that about 90% correct on their own and require no intervention. Caleb is not in the 90% category. He will need intervention and the sooner the better.
