Hi Brenda

We 'spoke' a while ago - our daughter Abigail had virtually no socket either,
what the surgeon here did, was pin the top of her leg into what was there of her
socket, in the expectation that the hip would then develope around the ball at
top of her leg - which also was really small, half the size it should have been.
There were a few other bits like grafting of bone, and underpinning but it got
too technical for me I'm afraid. She had surgery at 27 months, was in a cast
for 3 months - that was a long summer !! - she still has a metal plate & pins
in and we go back next March, if all is well they will take these out this time
next year. She did have aother complications - like the leg first had to be
broken & twisted back into place, before being secured in the socket.

That was last April, cast came off at the end of July - she is bouncing around
like Tigger - she never sits still, and you wouldn't know that she still had a
huge metal plate inside her. It took her a while to walk afterwards, her legs
were very thin, ( and really hairy !! ) but within 6/7 weeks she was walking
again, and another few weeks after that more or less full strength.

Hope this helps, if you got any more worries, then please ask

Hope she comes home soon

Eve & Martin, and of course Abigail

----- Original Message -----
From: adamandbrenda
To: clickyhipsclub@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 8:36 PM
Subject: [Clicky Hips Club] Any advice? Artificial hip socket?


Hello. I posted a while back regarding a little girl that we are
adopting from CHina. She has been diagnosed with congenital
dislocation of the hip. The orphanage says they noticed a limp when she
first started walking at 24 months. (Aggravation from me since they
didn't notice sooner!...) I received her xrays last week. Her pelvis
shows no socket and the ball at the top of her femur is 1/2 the size
it should be. Does anyone know if they will need to create an
artificial socket? Or a bone graft? Does that mean she'll have
surgeries all her life?
Thank you so much for the help!
Brenda





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