The Cornwall Times

We have internet again.  Yay!  Since Alex was scheduled for surgery on December 10th and we wouldn't be able to go up North to my parents house for Christmas, we headed to Roy early.  It was fun to visit, but the kids were very disappointed that all the snow had melted.

Unfortunately when Alex called to make sure everything was set for his surgery which was planned as a bone graft (a bone from a cadaver grafted into his knee).  Three days before the surgery there was no cadaver bone that would fit the circumference of his knee.  So workman's Comp finally okay-ed the surgery that Dr. Perry and Alex had originally wanted but that workman's comp wouldn't originally pay for since it is somewhat experimental.

Basically the bone is scrapped clean then a mixture of gel and stem cells would be layered in the hole where his cartelidge (spelling?) had broken off. Well all that went well, it was the aftermath that proved to be difficult.   After the doctor finished the procedure I waited for over an hour and a half before I could go in and see him because, according to the nurse they were still trying to get his pain under control.  I didn't understand why they wouldn't let me go see him.  And apparently he was asking for me.

He was in so much pain when he came out of the anastesia they just kept giving him more drugs.  He was so delirious with pain and morphine that he kept asking the nurse if he could see his wife.  "Can I see my wife?  My wife is hot.  Have you seen my hot wife?  Can I please see my hot wife?"  So cute, but very sad.

Finally they rolled him out still in pain, but not terribly.  The next three days were a blur of sleepless nights, lots of ice and a couple calls to the doctor.  Turns out the trick to relieve his pain was a muscle relaxer. If that weren't enough poor Miah had been struggling with an ear infection that kept coming back despite antibiotics. So after her ear drum ruptured a second time I turned to a more homeopathic approach and she seems to be doing much better.

So now that everyone's on the mend and we're all getting a little more sleep things are looking up.  And we're are ready and excited for Christmas and a new year!