Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 04:25:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Hanan's Helmet (was Re: My Apology)
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, Walter Miles wrote:

> 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)
<snip>

OIC

> 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.

It's only a month or two but it isn't easy for the parents.  If it
works, and it ought to, it'll be worth it.

=Tamar