Blake & Kohler Disease

Blake was recently diagnosed with Kohler Disease. If you want to see a picture of what his bones look like then go here and click on the x-ray picture on the left, his bone looks a lot like the one in the right foot in that picture. Anyway the way they treat this is by casting the foot so that it may rest and heal on it's own. He will be wearing the cast for a month and then they will take the cast off and x-ray it again and see how it is doing and if it is healing or if it needs longer to heal. If it needs longer to heal they will re-do the cast and he will wear it for about another month and then we will do the whole process again. He keeps asking us when are we going to go to the doctor to have it taken off, I feel really bad that he has to have this going on but am glad that we know why he was limping around and telling us his foot hurt. Here are some pictures of his cast.





This is what we do to his cast when it is bath time so that it doesn't get wet. We cover it in plastic wrap and then we cover the plastic wrap with packing tape. It seems to work pretty good, however he does not like it at all cause he hates having the tape on his skin.