I feel compelled to tell you some of my experiences. I am 51 and had corrective surgery at age 4 back in the 60's (2&3 toes both feet). I also have a grown daughter who has not had corrective surgery. She reads all these sites and has piqued by interest in these forums. To those of you that wished your parents would have let you have surgery as a baby, well...I just don't think they would have performed surgery for this so soon. The toes need to grow. I can tell you the surgery (back then) was quite painful in the weeks following the surgery. Quite a lot of care of the sutures and skin graft. I remember it all quite vividly and I could not do that to my very active child. Here is the part I need for you to know. My toes still never looked like everyone else's. There was scarring and the separation (maybe because I had it done at a young age) never in my opinion went down far enough to the base of the foot.
I have more to say if anyone is interested. I do not want to take up too much space rambling.
