Sunday, August 10, 2014

Post Surgery Foot

I realized that I didn't post any pictures of Zeke's foot after surgery.  I have often heard people in the limb difference community say that a toe to finger transfer amounts to creating another disfigured limb.  However that is a bit relative.  In Zeke's case, his feet were unaffected by any congenital issues.  So we knew that removing a toe would change the appearance of his foot.  But the doctors do not lop off the toe and leave a large gap.  They instead adjust things and create the illusion of five toes.  There is a decent amount of scarring but I am cautiously optimistic that this will lessen over time.

1 comment:

Kathy Cassel said...

With Jasmine, only one hand is affected and it's not real noticeable, but her feet are very noticeably different with missing and fused toes and a cleft in the bottom of her foot.