2nd trip to Pediatric Clinic and A Visit to Pediatric Orthopedic Clinic

On his 2nd trip to pediatric, Doctor Vimal is on annual leave. Alfred was seen by another doctor, a newly graduate lady doctor. To be frank, she is just as young as me as I saw her identification on her tag. She ask politely that she want to took a picture of Alfred for her keeping purpose because this the first time she treating an achondroplasia baby. We raised the issue about Alfred lower spine had started to bow out which concerned us so much. A senior doctor came by and commented Alfred to do an x-ray on his spine and was then sent to orthopedic. He was recommended to another hospital in bigger city, Kuala Lumpur which have pediatric orthopedic clinic. The results said that Alfred spine had show no sign yet of kyhosis. But what happened in the pediatric orthopedic clinic really annoyed me. Again, Alfred was checked by a newly graduate doctor in that clinic. I guess government hospital is the training ground for new doctor. At that time, he wasn't sure because this is the first time he treated an achon child. He called up his professor but ended up Alfred being a teaching method to all the newly grad doctor there. Those doctors was lining up in front of the professor as the professor throwing out question for the doctors to answer. The situation is like you are in the classroom with a real human as a teaching method. I feel so sad and unrespectable by the professor. He didn’t read on Alfred report and just a simple glance through Alfred x-ray. He then told me that there is nothing to worry as kyhosis might will or might not occur when he grew up later. About those new doctors, they just took Alfred photo without asking my permission. Do they know how to respect their patient? A courtesy request, can I take a photo of your son? I guess that wasn’t so hard. To be frank, I don’t like my son photo being taken although I know it for a good purpose. Just some voice inside my little heart feels uneasy about it. I’m still thinking should I still want to opt for the coming checkup.

Eventually till now, I’m still looking around for a good doctor whom will really concern about Alfred conditions. We don’t have Achondroplasia specialists in our country. The only way we could find more information is by surfing the internet which leads me to many impressive mommy blogs. Their little baby stories burst me into tears and they do bought me laughter on every of their little move. They have inspired me with their blogs. Here, I would like to express my gratitude to all achondroplasia website mommies’ blogs especially to Tonya and Knoah. Thank you so much.