Today, we have lengthened his femur 2 cms so we get to stop on that bone. We have lengthened his tibia about 2.5 cms so we are halfway there on it!!! Total length to date= 1 3/4 inches!!!!! Here are the new Xrays from this week. If you look really hard, you can see that it is kind of cloudy and streaky looking in the areas where the breaks are. That is the new bone growth coming in. We are starting a new schedule with his pin turns that is based solely on how he is handling the lengthening. I can lengthen 1/2 mm a day or 1 mm a day depending on how he is doing. Even if we do half a day it won't change the length of time in the fixator because even if we are going slowly, the bone is continuously growing in so consolidation won't take as long.
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