Our First Family Photo
Pretty Girl!
She DOES have both feet! The way they were casted just looks funny McKenna was born July 10th 2008! We are so excited to have her as part of our family and every day is a new experience for us. McKenna is our first born and such a good baby! We're so blessed to have such a sweet, beautiful baby in our home.
McKenna was born with bilateral club feet due to her breech position during the last few weeks in the womb. At about 36 weeks McKenna flipped to the breech position and there she sat until she was delivered via c-section. When she was born, the first thing her Daddy said to me was "Something's wrong with her feet! They're turned in" which, of course, just sent me into a panic. There I am, strapped to an operating table, unable to even see my precious baby girl and I'm told this kind of news. I was terrified! Thoughts started racing through my head "will she be alright?" "will she be able to walk?" "will she be made fun of?" "will she be in pain?" etc. Over the next few days in the hospital I cried A LOT when no one was around and just rocked my precious baby. What the heck WAS Club Foot anyway? What did this mean and was it fixable? Would we be able to afford to fix it? I was a mess! I love my sweet baby girl and I was just aching for her. Then, her pediatrician, Dr. Elizabeth Dickey, came in and talked to us about McKenna's condition. She said club feet are TOTALLY fixable (and common!), they just became this way because of how McKenna had been positioned in the womb those last few weeks of life, this was really NO BIG DEAL, and she had already referred us to Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children in Dallas and our first appointment was already scheduled for Friday July 25th. Oh, and did I mention her treatments would be FREE?! Yeah, free! TSRHC is a Masonic Charity that has never billed any patient so much as one penny for services rendered at their facility, AND they're one of the leading facilities in the entire United States in Pediatric Orthopedics. We are in good hands!
So, then I had a whole new reason to cry! McKenna could be healed in a matter of months, it would be pretty much painless and it wouldn't bankrupt us! I don't know why Heavenly Father saw fit to give McKenna (and us, her parents) this special challenge, but we're ready! This isn't a curse, it isn't a tragedy it's an adventure! So here's to McKenna, our brave little girl, and her adventure to new feet! We love you, Kenna Bug! Let's do this!
