Thursday, September 11, 2008
FIXATOR OFF!! BRIGHT PINK CAST ON!!!!
Hi again
It's the next day. We are still in the hospital but all being well we'll be going home today. Home as in the RMH- which by the way is looking pretty flippin' good!! They have renevated all the rooms and they are fantasic! And another thing to report.......when we arrived there 2 days ago....the winner of last seasons Hell's Kitchen - ROCK!...cooked our dinner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOWWWW!!!!! If Gorden Ramsey likes his food then we surely do!!!! He made his signiture dish of crab cakes served with rice and a greek yogurt dip with salad and homemade dressing....followed by a hot peach crunch served with vanilla icecream- yuuummmmyyyy!!! If you check out the RMH Baltimore website there is likely to be an interview that I gave about the meals at the house!!! Yes I'm a star at last!!!!!.... So back to Lydia..!!.. She is doing fine. Sick on the first day because of the anaesthesia in her system- but that is to be expected. Dr Standard has put a rod in her femur. Her cast is full length and I have been instructed that she isn't to weight bear on her leg for 2 weeks.
One bit of shocking news is that I'm sharing a hospital room with Riley, one of the girls who is in the picture with Lydia waiting for Pam's pin care. She had her fixator removed 2 weeks ago but her femur fractured and so she had to have an emergency surgery yesterday to put a fixator back on....can you believe it. She lost the length gained when her bone fractured so she is having to go through the process again. I asked Dr Standard how many times this has happenned with other patients and he said it has only occurred twice before. That's out of about 100 cases.
So cross fingers and touch wood this doesn't happen to Lydia.
It's the next day. We are still in the hospital but all being well we'll be going home today. Home as in the RMH- which by the way is looking pretty flippin' good!! They have renevated all the rooms and they are fantasic! And another thing to report.......when we arrived there 2 days ago....the winner of last seasons Hell's Kitchen - ROCK!...cooked our dinner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOWWWW!!!!! If Gorden Ramsey likes his food then we surely do!!!! He made his signiture dish of crab cakes served with rice and a greek yogurt dip with salad and homemade dressing....followed by a hot peach crunch served with vanilla icecream- yuuummmmyyyy!!! If you check out the RMH Baltimore website there is likely to be an interview that I gave about the meals at the house!!! Yes I'm a star at last!!!!!.... So back to Lydia..!!.. She is doing fine. Sick on the first day because of the anaesthesia in her system- but that is to be expected. Dr Standard has put a rod in her femur. Her cast is full length and I have been instructed that she isn't to weight bear on her leg for 2 weeks.
One bit of shocking news is that I'm sharing a hospital room with Riley, one of the girls who is in the picture with Lydia waiting for Pam's pin care. She had her fixator removed 2 weeks ago but her femur fractured and so she had to have an emergency surgery yesterday to put a fixator back on....can you believe it. She lost the length gained when her bone fractured so she is having to go through the process again. I asked Dr Standard how many times this has happenned with other patients and he said it has only occurred twice before. That's out of about 100 cases.
So cross fingers and touch wood this doesn't happen to Lydia.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
September 08- FIXATOR REMOVAL!!!
Well, as I type, Lydia is under a general anasthetic and having her fixator removed! I have a pager so I am ready to go and see her as soon as it starts bleeping and flashing!
It has been a while since I last wrote so here's the update. Since we returned to California, Lydia has had to have 5 therapy sessions a week, with Memi to try and increase her knee bending/knee straightening range. Unfortunately, busy family life has proved too much for me, and so the exercise regement that I took on with Lydia in Baltimore, to help reinforce the ground gained by the therapist fell by the way side when we were back home. It doesn't help that it is emotionally gruelling to hear her shout/cry out with pain and when there is so much else to do....well need I say more. I'm so sorry Lydia. There have been many moments on this journey where I have wondered whether we took the right path. Maybe the option to amputate her left foot and fit a prosthetic which makes up the leg length, would have been the kinder option. I honestly don't know, all I do know is that if I had to start this journey again and I truely knew what Lydia and I were up against with the lengthening, I would probably take her down the amputation route. Her leg is so stiff, her knee hardly bends and causes her so much pain. I don't know if she'll ever get her range back , especially with me not being tough enough with her. Tough love they call it and it is so true....
Sorry this hasn't been very positive.
It has been a while since I last wrote so here's the update. Since we returned to California, Lydia has had to have 5 therapy sessions a week, with Memi to try and increase her knee bending/knee straightening range. Unfortunately, busy family life has proved too much for me, and so the exercise regement that I took on with Lydia in Baltimore, to help reinforce the ground gained by the therapist fell by the way side when we were back home. It doesn't help that it is emotionally gruelling to hear her shout/cry out with pain and when there is so much else to do....well need I say more. I'm so sorry Lydia. There have been many moments on this journey where I have wondered whether we took the right path. Maybe the option to amputate her left foot and fit a prosthetic which makes up the leg length, would have been the kinder option. I honestly don't know, all I do know is that if I had to start this journey again and I truely knew what Lydia and I were up against with the lengthening, I would probably take her down the amputation route. Her leg is so stiff, her knee hardly bends and causes her so much pain. I don't know if she'll ever get her range back , especially with me not being tough enough with her. Tough love they call it and it is so true....
Sorry this hasn't been very positive.
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