After three bands and seven months on September 27th, 2005, Dominick is a Doc band graduate...woohoo!!! I can't believe it. It still hasn't sunk in all the way, but I am so happy. I will write the whole story and all the details as soon as I can, but I wanted to share this news with the plagio world as soon as I could.
Ok, Here's the how it went. We went for our visit on the 27th expecting to make that last tiny adjustment left to try and give him a week or so more, but circumstances changed our plans. He had just finished a big growth spurt, so we sat down and tried to decide what chances of more correction he might get from wearing the band another possible two weeks. The benefit would be he might see a bit more improvement, but the factors against those chances were big ones. Like I said he had just finished a big growth spurt and they don't come as often as when he was little, he had started teething again and they don't grow well when teething, and he was working on perfecting the new walking ability, and they don't like to grow while they are working on a big milestone. Added to this was the fact that he was to see the opthomologist again the next day because he still wasn't keeping his glasses on, and with the band on we could not find a feasible strap solution. All these factors made the decision to graduate a tiny bit early the wisest choice. So TADA! We have a graduate! It is funny, it has been almost ten days and last night Scott said after he picked him up out of his highchair,"Did you clean his band?". We are scheduled for Oct.11th to do the exit cast and photos. It is nice to know that this is the last casting he will go through, even though he has always been so good for them. I cannot wait to see the exit pictures, and when they collage them to show the improvement over treatment. His should prove to be amazing.
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