Graduation Day

Today, Peter "graduated" from his DOC band. Hooray! It has been exactly 12 weeks since he first got the band.



This is the last photo of Peter wearing his band in the waiting room of Cranial Technologies.



Peter had to put a stocking over his head again. It didn't bother him, but he couldn't figure out why he wasn't able to get his finger all the way into his mouth.

Then, they took some more 3D images of his head with this cool camera.

Next, they measured his head and compared the measurements with the ones they took in February. In his first set of measurements, Peter had a 4.8 standard deviation (which was enough to qualify for insurance to cover the cost of treatment). Today, Peter's standard deviation was 1.46!! Way to go, Peter!

Afterwards, we looked at the Before and After of the 3D images. Peter's "Before" is on the top and the "After" is on the bottom. Look how much rounder the back of his head is in the bottom picture. Isn't that crazy? I'm so happy for Peter and his round head!

Happy Graduation, Peter! He is obviously really excited...

We'll have some more Before & After pics to post in the coming weeks. They took a full set of actual photographs, and once we get them back, I'll post them so that you can see the incredible difference the DOC band made.

It took a long time for me to be convinced that Peter needed to wear the band, but now that I've seen the results, I'm so happy that we decided to do it. Thank you, Cranial Technologies!