FIRST STEPS TO A BETTER LIFE
Alex was born 17 years ago with bilateral congenital clubfoot, which was never picked up in his scans. Doctors and nurses assured us that a few casts would fix his feet in no time. He was fitted with his first plaster casts up to the knee by an orthopaedic surgeon when he was six days old.
But at nine weeks old, the surgeon told us Alex would have to undergo major surgery on both feet when he reached 12 weeks. We were shocked, as we’d hoped the casts would work, but he said 90% of all babies in the country with congenital clubfoot were operated on after casting. Surgery involved a minimum of
