Surgery day is here

It has been too long since we have updated the blog.

Molly headed back for Surgery this morning at 9:15am central time.

She is going to get a new port-a-cath, followed by a new rod in her Right femur.

Depending on how that goes, he will then move along to the right tibia.  And then depending again, he will consider the left femur and left tibia.

I will post updates on the blog as we get them.

Update #1 (9:50am central) : Nurse just gave us an update that the port surgery is underway.  The Dr will come out to give us an update when he is finished.  Should take just under an hour.

Update #2 (10:43am central) : Doctor just stopped by.  Port surgery is now finished.  The new port was put in at the same place as the previous one.  Seems like all went well.  Prep is now starting for the leg surgeries.

Update #3 (11:15pm central) Leg surgery is underway.  All going well for now.  The Epidural seemed to go in well, so we are hoping it will give us good pain coverage.

Update #4 (12:04pm central) Right femur is finished, moving on to right femur now.  All going well so far.  This right femur was one of the ones that we didn't know what to expect, as the old rod had migrated a bit out of position.

Update #5 (12:54 central) The rod is out of the right tibia.  He is now working on putting in the new rod.

Update #6 (1:15 central) Dr. E came out to talk to us.  The right leg is now finished, everything went well.  We had a relatively long discussion to discuss whether we should do the left leg or not.  Blood loss has been good, so Dr. E is just trying to decide if the current state on the left side is good enough, or if we should do some more.  I got the impression that he will fix the left femur that just fractured last Saturday, and leave the left tibia alone.

Update #7 (2:15 pm central)  Work on the left femur is still going, doing well.

Update #8 (2:40pm central) Paul and Sarah are both sleeping.  Glad they can get some rest now before things are crazy later.

Update #9 (2:45pm central) Surgery is complete!  All went well, they are wrapping things up now.  We are not going to do the left tibia this time around.  In the end we have a new port, new rods in both femurs, and a new rod in the right tibia.  Dr. E will be out to talk to us once he is cleaned up.  We should get to see Molly in about 1.5 hours.

Update #10 (3:10pm central) Just finished talking to Dr. E.  It sounds like the surgery went really well.  There was minimal blood loss during the surgery.  He didn't have to do osteotomy on either of the Femurs, so he expects the recovery to go well.  So well, that he don't think we'll need any splints for the femurs.  The right tibia will probably hurt the most, but it sounds like we should have a pretty good recovery, considering how much was done.

Sarah request: Molly would love to hear any jokes, stories (especially about silly/naughty things you or your kids did when they were little), photos, pictures you draw etc.