We have been in our room for over an hour now and Cindy has figured out how to work the morphine pump. She is a smart girl. We will need to stay overnight which is probably a good thing.
Doctor said there was a small piece of cartiledge that was sheared off probably during the injury. It will probably not give her much trouble as the missing cartiledge was near the non weight bearing portion of the ankle. She also had a very short achilles tendon that was preventing the ankle from flexing to 90 degrees. He lengthened the achilles tendon with a piece of the soleus muscle from deep in hear calf area.
She will be in a splint for a week. Stitches will come out and then will be in a hard cast for about 4 weeks. After 4 weeks she will be in a boot after that for an undetermined length of time until she can start putting weight on her leg.
We should be home by noon tomorrow.
If you were considering visiting, I don't think she would know it. I told her a while ago that I was Brad Pitt and she said you were really good in "Meet Joe Black." She then went back to sleep. (Ha! Ha!)
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She didn't ask for your autograph? Bummer. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for keeping us posted!
Keep up the good work there, Rory! Thanks for the updates!
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