| Hi
my name is Kramer Endres I am 12 years old. I'm
pretty familiar with the UW Children's Hospital,
because have had 13 surgeries there. One of the
reasons why I have had so many surgeries is because
I was born with Cerebral Palsy (CP for short). It
is where your muscles get tight and it can be hard
to some things like walk and straighten your arms
and legs. Seven of the surgeries that I have had
done have been to make the mobility in my arms and
legs to be better. |
| The
first two surgeries to help me with CP were done
by Dr. Berman Iskandar in 1998 and 2001 for a pump
that would be placed in my belly and would release
medicine in my spine to make my muscles looser.
|
| Dr.
Kenneth Noonan did my next surgery in 2005 to help
my legs. What they all did was rotate out my femurs
and put in a metal plate to hold it, they reattached
the tendons of some muscles, put in staples in my
knees to straiten them, and put pins in my ankles
so that they wouldn't rotate in. This was by far
the biggest surgery and it took a total of 9 months
to fully recover. The next surgery was also done
by Dr. Kenneth Noonan in 2006 to remove the staples
in my knees that I mentioned in the previous surgery. |
| My
next surgery was done by Dr. Leland Albright in
2007 for another pump surgery like the ones I had
in 1998 and 2001 and He also did three other surgeries
in 2007 to fix a spinal fluid leak in my back. |
| We
would have never met any of these doctors if it
wasn't for Dr. Deb McLeish because she recommended
these doctors for us. The UW Children's Hospital
is a great hospital. It has a lot of activities
and fun things to do for you and your family. I
am really exited for the new children's hospital
because it is suppose to be even better, also I
would like to thank the Greater Bucky Open for all
of support to the Children's Hospital. |
