Oooohhh what a day......
On Thursday, October 14, 2010 in Little Rock, at the new Baptist Hospital E had shoulder surgery.
The morning started out crazy and hectic, but with all that we were running on time. Early by at least thirty minutes in fact....(go ahead all my friends and chuckle about this, but it's true, I was on time!)
Pretty much everything went fairly smoothly. I am usually a nervous wreck, most of the time can't sit still, ever the worry wart.....huummmm could it be the meds I'm on that kept me calm you say? Maybe, BUT I didn't take any that day at all just so I would be as alert as I possibly could. So I'd like to say I was calm due to God taking my worries away.
It was definately a very long day, but ended with a good outcome. Dr. Collins had some new tests ordered before surgery....a certain type of cat scan formatted to his liking. During surgery he found that the pieces he was afraid would be to shattered to use to put the biggest break (a 4mm offset of the gleniod) back together were useable and put two screws in to reset the gleniod and gave E a smooth joint like he had before. The shattered parts didn't need a bone graph or plate, as long as he does what he's suppose to and things don't shift Dr. Collins left that alone, along with the breaks in the scapula, to heal on their own. He didn't cut through the muscles but instead seperated them, and that too was to help on recovery time. The surgery was originally scheduled for two plus hours but only took about an hour!! E has about a 4 inch area on his shoulder that has ten steri-strips on it. He has to wear a special brace and can't do anything (which drives him nuts).
Since he was previously affected with MRSA this year there were alot of extra steps to go through because of that but it was just precautions and rules. While in his short stay room he kept saying he was going to the football game Friday night! The ride home was long, and it was late, but he was determined he wasn"t spending the night in the hospital. He made it through Friday morning well, but as the day went on he started not feeling so well. He was trying to go without any pain meds so he could get out and go to the game, but ended up having to listen to it on channel two. Once we got his meds in him about an hour later he was feeling better, he doesn't take them often at all and seems to be doing well without them. He's not allowed to move his arm at all until further instructions. The most he gets to do is squeeze a red squishy ball to promote circulation. We got back to Little Rock in a week to meet with Dr. Collins and let him verbally "lay down the law" to E on what he can do and can not do. But you know it's going to be the same things I've already been telling him! LOL
I'm always saying the weekends go by way to fast, but this past weekend went by slow at our house!
I want to also give a thank you shout out to my friend S for sitting with me all day Thursday and being away from her family and her business, and for being our taxi cab around Little Rock.
And to my little sister.....thanks to you and MeeMee for getting the house ready for us Thursday to come home to, even for going over later and turning the lights on and making a late night run to WalMart for us, for taking time away from your family to help us, to cook, to shuttle us around, etc...
I will be getting some MRI's, c-shots, etc, etc, to figure out what's going on with me. E goes back to Little Rock the 25th. After that we should know what we are looking at and for how long....but three months keeps getting repeated on the minimum for E. We are hopeful and optimistic that he heals well, and is as good as new if not better when this is all said and done. Insurance people are coming to look at the bike, this week I believe. Maybe one day I will post a pic of it when I gather the courage to share. We haven't saw it in person still, well E saw it after the wreck but I didn't get to, I think one day soon we are going to go take a gander at it.
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