Monday, December 01, 2008

In the Hospital 12/1/2008 - with updates - arm is rodded

12/1/08 1:25 pm (Central Time)

We have been at the hospital since 11:00 and Molly has now been taken back to the OR.

She was a bit feisty about accessing her port, but other than that things have gone quite smoothly.  The staff here is so wonderful.  I feel very lucky to have a wonderful surgeon and staff all at the same place - too bad it's all the way in Omaha!

There will be a nurse coming out to give us updates as to when the surgery starts and how she is doing throughout and I will update you as I get updates.

Thanks to all for thinking of Molly and hoping for a good outcome.

They are going to take X-Rays of her legs while they are in there, to check on the fractures she has had this past week.  He could feel bowing in her right Tibia right down at the ankle.  He thinks we won't do anything about the legs today in hopes we can get some more time out of the current rods.

Thats all for now...

3:05 (Central Time)

Dr. Esposito came out to talk about how her leg X-Rays looked and we needed to make a decision about whether or not to rod her left Tibia.  The rod i snot "seated"/fixed at the bottom, which means the rod will not telescope.  It is also bowing where the male and female parts meet (just below the middle of the bone).   The rod is quite close the bone in the front and will eventually break through the bone, at which time it will need to be replaced.  We debated replacing this one rod, but both Jim and Dr. Esposito feel it is reasonable to wait.  Her left Femur is bowing and those rods are now almost 2 years old.  We may need to replace the one rod in 3 months, or we might be able to wait a full year before she needs another surgery.  If we are able to wait a while longer we would most likely replace all 4 leg rods at the same time.   I am feeling a lot of ambivalence about this decision, but in the end we respect Dr. Esposito's opinion and his recommendation is that we can wait.

Here's hopin'!

I'll be heading out to be with her and will try and post soon.

Sarah

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Sarah, Jim & Molly!

I've been thinking about you ALL today. I'm glad I got a chance to read the updates. That Molly, I tell ya...she's one tough cookie!!! I can only imagine how tough things are, especially with having to decide to do the additional (leg) procedures now, or to wait. If only that dang crystal ball was for real!!! I suppose this is where faith and the doctors experience comes into play. Just take one day at a time!!

Take care and tell Molly we all said "HI!!"....

I'll look for more updates.....

Love, Janine

Casey Banta said...

Hi all,

Just wanted to let you know that we're thinking about you all and sending well wishes to Omaha. We hope the surgery goes smoothly today. And, we're so thankful that you've found such a skilled and thoughtful surgeon.

Hang in there!

Best,
Casey and Jeff