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Date Posted: 18:07:00 11/26/10 Fri
Author: shirley
Subject: Catching up--sorta

It's been a busy year and it's not over. I finally have a date for my first hip replacement--Jan. 12. It's taken a year working for a solution and hundreds of tests. Our youngest daughter who lives with us with her 10-year-old son will have a hysterectomy Dec. 20. She collapsed in my surgeons office a month ago. She had five nurses attending her in short notice. Come to find out, her hemoglobin count was 5 and should have been 12 so she's been on strong iron meds after receiving two transfusions in the ER. It will be performed via a robot. I don't know when the second hip replacement will take place but after that, it's knee replacement surgery.

Our youngest son who had the crush injury after a run in with a fork life is engaged in mediation talks with the insurance company, He'll have to wear a carbon fibre insole the rest of his life. His 12-year-old will have a consult with a surgeon Dec. 1. He has dwarfism. The decision whether or not to have bone lengthening surgery was left to him. He had a consult two weeks ago and before they can do that surgery, he has to have spinal surgery because x-rays revealed his spinal malformation was worse so that will involve straightening an S curve in his spine. He's been on arthritis meds for over a year due to severe bowing of his legs.

After he recovers from the spinal surgery, he'll have bone lengthening of one thigh and the opposite calf. Next will come doing the opposite legs. Then will come lengthening of one lower arm and the opposite upper arm and after that, doing the remaining arm. Doctors estimate he'll gain 4-5 inches in height. He's presently 3'6". Seems he's got a long, painful journey ahead of him. Shriner's Hospital is doing all the surgery, thank God. This is going to be an expensive process but when he was born, there wasn't much hope that he'd live beyond his first birthday. And he's wildly popular at school, despite his size.

It's going to be busy time around here but better to get it done during the winter when there's not much activity and then be able to enjoy the warmer weather.

So if I'm MIA, you'll know why.

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Re: Catching up--sorta -- Jeffman, 11:40:37 12/03/10 Fri
Sometimes it happens like that -- Paul Davis, 07:41:49 12/04/10 Sat
Thanks y'all -- shirley, 17:11:42 12/09/10 Thu