Surgery Update

Thank you to everyone who kept us in your prayers yesterday...we really appreciate it!

Yesterday turned out to be quite a long day, especially for my starving husband who had not had anything to eat or drink since midnight on Tuesday night. Daniel's surgery was originally scheduled for 1:30 and we were supposed to arrive at 12:30 but they called us around 10 to ask us to come in an hour later as they were already running behind. We ended up not going until 2:30, and because of some major problems (a mess as his Dr called it) he did not go into surgery until 6:30pm. We spent the majority of the time trying to best each other on Cash Cab. Since Daniel rarely reads this, I am going to go ahead and say that I won. :) Of course, by this point, Daniel was fantasizing about every single food commercial that came on tv....poor guy! I tried not to eat in front of him, being supportive you know, but eventually I had to give in to the granola bar in my purse.

His surgery lasted between 1.5 to 2 hours and then we had to spend some time in the recovery room before we could go home. We left the hospital at 10 and got home a little bit before 10:30. Thank goodness for Ouida and Mercy who had Kenna all safely tucked into her own bed. They were so sweet to spent the last two days with us to help take care of Miss K and then, today, her daddy as well. Thank you!

They had originally planned to go in and just clean up some cartilage damage or scar tissue that was left over from his ACL repair 9 years ago but found that he would need a little more work. He had a decent sized spot on his knee that did not have any cartilage remaining at all. To solve this problem, they did a procedure called a microfracture where they make a series of fractures in the exposed bone so that it will produce a different type of cartilage. This is not the same as the original cartilage, but should hopefully alleviate a lot of the pain for a while. He will have to be on crutches for 6 weeks and use a CPM machine for 4-6 hours a day for those 6 weeks. At that time, they will decide when and how he can start going back to work. Should be fun! :) Daniel is already devising ways to tote Kenna around our house while he is on crutches...most of which I am quickly vetoing!!

I am really glad that he had this done, as his knee was not going to just get better on its own. Hopefully he will have a fairly uneventful recovery. So far he is following all of the rules and doing everything he is supposed to do so we will see!

Thanks again for all of the prayers. They really make a difference!