A chapter finally closes...

This is the story of a boy who decided that he wanted to be alittle different then most. He chose to come to earth with a few hardships. He has been amazing through all of his trials. However a few days ago one of them finally came to a close. See he was born with bilateral clubfeet and has had to endure many weeks of casting, heel cord surgery, and shoes connected to a bar.

He never smelled like baby powder, he always smelled like vinegar. This was how we had to soak his casts off each week. Nothing like dipping your little baby in a trash can full of warm vinegar water.

At about ten weeks old he had to have his heel cord lengthened. It was an outpatient surgery however he was kept overnight for observation. Then it was back into casts again for a couple of weeks.

After his surgery and another few weeks of casts, Owyn was able to get into the Denis Browne
Bar. It was some lovely white open toed shoes connected to a metal bar that kept his feet pointed and angled out. He has had this bar for just over 3 years. He had to wear it all the time for about six months and the he was able to only wear it at nap and bedtimes. Believe it or not he learned to crawl with that bar

on. This past week we saw his orthopaedic surgeron and we got the wonderful news that his feet are completely corrected. He has only a slight 5% chance of a relapse. As of now he has no pain in his feet and only diminished feeling. Hopefully he will not suffer much pain throughout his life because of the treatment plan that we followed. It was probably was the best news we have gotten in quite awhile.