Miguel gets his tendons lengthened!

Miguel has cerebral palsy. Here´s Miguel with his grandmother and aunt, Maria. He was abandoned by his mother and now he lives with his sibs, aunt and their grandmother. The only income is from Maria´s husband´s work as a chauffeur of a bus. Miguel smiles lots and he loved the balloon animals that Anesthesia Tech Glenn Day made for him. Miguel needs flat feet if he´s to walk better and that´s what we did for him today.

Here Fern Cannon helps Miguel onto the operating room table. Fern has been part of CAMTA as a translator since our inception and worked with some of us in Cuenca before CAMTA was formed. She´s an Ecuadorean and now lives with her husband and three girls (9, 7, 5) in Texas.

Here´s the surgical team for Miguel. It´s the end of surgery and he´s got some nice cylinder casts! That´s Robyn Goplen, Surgeon Marc Moreau, Anesthesiologist Teresa Eliasson, Surgeon John McIvor and medical student, Mike Metcalfe.



And finally here is a smiling Miguel on the ward after surgery!