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Kiara Had a lenghtening surgery on March 31st, 2006, she had 11 pins put in her right leg and I lenghtened her leg 8 cm wich was the max we could do!

As I promised I will keep everyone posted about kiara's surgery(lenghtening) to all the parents comments a Big THANK YOU... Kiara's leg has growned 5.5cm and the doctor gave her the okay for the pool this past week with a little help from the brace shop and we are traveling to Portugal for 2 weeks with her to see our Family to all good luck and I'll keep u all posted we will be back August 25th.

with care Sonia.

Just a quick update on Kiaras Surgery...
She had the surgery in March and due to her toes bending she had surgery again in June to have a little cast to hold her toes with a cast... she is walking and her leg is growing really well...
she has physical therapy 2 times a week and she has been walking for 2 weeks.

to all good luck

with care

sonia
kiaras mom.

Hi my name is sonia and i am the mother of a beautiful little girl named kiara. Kiara was born at full gestation and we found out that she was missing a toe the day she was born christmas day December 25 of 2000, to our surprise Kiara wasn't just missing a toe she was also missing her fibula in her right leg and she had a small bowing and also a shorter femur. Since then I did all the research i could, we visited Children's hospital in Boston and we drove up to shriners hospital in Springfield. We opted to have physical therapy at home and kiara started to walk with a shoe lift at age of 16 months old, She had a small surgery at 11months old to release her tendon and again at age 3. She is now 5yrs old and after meeting with several doctors we decided to do her first leg lenghtening of 8cm. Its a road that its hard to walk on but so far kiaras leg has grown almost 2cm, she has pain and pin care is far from fun...