He's All 'Screwy'

It's late & I'm beat so I'm going to keep this short & sweet... Okay, 'short' per ME, LOL.

Scott's fine, the surgery was successful, but he's in a TREMENDOUS amount of pain, and they have decided to keep him overnight. The surgeon showed me the orthoscopic pics from during the surgery and post-surgical x-rays.It took about an hour longer than anticipated because she had to try to figure out what to do & how or if she could even do anything. The original gameplan changed because once she got in there, she was able to see that the damage was much worse than the previous x-rays and cat scan had revealed, and she said she had never seen anything quite like his injuries. I'm not going to go into all the details, but long story short, he has had the chip removed because it could not be repaired, he has one dissolvable pin, not three,.. the second would have been to repair the chip, and the third was changed to an actual screw through both bones in the back of his ankle/foot. It's about a 2" screw to hold things in place there because the damage was extensive. He also has ligament damage. I will pick him tomorrow and bring him home, they've pretty well got him in traction tonight, and the pain was so severe they had to hold him recovery about twice as long as anticipated, and they also had to do what they called a 'block',... similar to a spinal block, but this went directly into his leg, which is more extensive than his IV. He'll have a follow-up with the ortho-surgeon in 10-14 days, then they'll do the perma-cast for about 4 weeks, and then it sounds like they'll plan to take it off after that & maybe do some physical therapy. In 6 months, they'll consider whether to go back in and remove the screw, or leave it there permanently. She said his injury is so extensive that he is at high risk for post stress arthritis which can be very painful, but that it could take up to a couple of years to know for sure what the permanent damage will be. Either way, she was confident that he will make a full recovery, and have full mobility of that foot.

That's a wrap, I'm off to bed.