From: Walter Miles <waltmiles at comcast.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 01:54:26 -0400
Subject: [WSFA] Hanan's Helmet (was Re: My Apology)
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Hello Tamar

On 06/28/07, dicconf wrote:

WM> I got busy with other things
WM> (helmet to change shape of baby's head, for example),

TL>?????  That doesn't sound good, unless hypothetical only.

She had plagiocephaly (flat on the back right, bulging a bit on the
left rear and right front, kinda like the long axis of her head was
shifted an eighth of a turn) contributed to by her achondroplasia
(like those thirteen guys that Bilbo Baggins went on vacation with
one year, or Judy-Lynn Del Ray), and perhaps her transverse oblique
position (lyin' crossways on her back with her head, IIRC, a little
down) in the womb, and maybe torticollis (repeated neck muscle
spasm) that made her lie more frequently with her head looking to
the right.

The helmet allows her head to grow in certain areas, while
restraining others.  She'll be in it until (probably) the end of
August.  It stays on 23 hours a day, except for hourly wipings of
sweat during the daytime.  During her hour off she gets bathed
and it gets cleaned with rubbin' ackerhol.

Hanan is pretty okay with the thing, but the parents are a little
strained these days.

Walter