We brought Aaron Xiong Wei home yesterday! What an exciting time!

Here are two more pictures to close out this particular update on Aaron‘s treatment for a “clubbed” right foot! Please scroll down to see how Aaron’s foot looked before his two months of treatment in Beijing.



We picked Aaron up in Beijing at about 5:00PM on Saturday, the 24th of November and caught an overnight train back to Gongyi. We arrived in Gongyi at 7:30AM and went straight to the nursery. Everyone was waiting for him and even the other little toddlers in the Nursery were anxious to see Aaron. I’m sure they didn’t know what was going on but with all the “hoopla” about his coming home the excitement was catching! We are so glad he is home!

Aaron will need to wear the little brace 24 hours per day until March 1, 2008. (The red “tie” on his right foot is some yarn the Nursery Nannies tied around his shoe because he has already learned how to get his foot out of the shoe.) After that and until he is six years old, he will need to wear it every night while he sleeps. As you can see, the foot that received the treatment is turning a little toward the outside compared to how it used to be… twisted to the inside.

The reason it is turned to the outside is what they called “over correction” which will slowly become less important as he begins to walk without the brace during the day time hours (after March 1, 2008).

We offer a great big Thank You to Doctor Joyce Hill and her staff for the great job they did on Aaron. Actually, they were sad to see him leave because at three months old he is just developing his personality and it is one big, happy personality!

Aaron Xiong Wei Update – November 20, 2007

We received additional pictures and a wonderful report on Aaron today.

First the pictures!


Aaron is doing wonderful and the following pictures show just how much his little foot has improved.



As you can see by both of the above pictures his little foot is straight. Aaron will need special shoes and braces for quite awhile in the future but his prognosis is excellent. We are all so happy and excited because this weekend he will be coming home!

Fantastic!

October 11, 2007

The attending physician, Dr. Joyce Hill sent us some current snapshots of Aaron Xiong Wei (above) who is in Beijing undergoing treatment for his club foot.

A short time ago we wrote about taking Aaron to Beijing for his treatment (see that page by clicking here) and how we anticipate a complete success in his regard.

On August 29th, just as we were leaving the hospital after getting Aaron all settled in, we noticed that Dr. Hill was taking a few pictures of Aaron’s foot. As you can see his foot had a major twist to the left. We had tried to massage it straight, somewhat like we did for Mary Xiong Xiao with no success. Dr. Hill has had great success with treating these kinds of conditions so we were most comfortable in leaving him there for treatment.

The method of treatment is a repetition of “casting” in that they hold the foot in the correct position and then place a cast on it. After a certain period of time they remove the cast and redo it again.

The picture at the right was taken during the remove of the fifth casting and was taken on October 9th.

This picture of Aaron’s foot was taken on October 10 after the complete removal of the cast.

It is obvious that the foot is not straight and in it’s proper location. The next step, once the doctor feels the casting process is complete will be a minor surgery on the tendon at the back of his heel. Once that is complete and healed Aaron will be fitted with special shoes and braces which he will need to wear for some time into the future. But once he is in the special shoes and braces, he will be able to come home!

We do miss him!

Thank You and many blessings!