Naomi
08-08-2007, 11:15 AM
Hi there. I know I've been absent from posting but I have been checking on your babies often.
We went to see the hand surgeon again yesterday. I don't know if I've told you the story, but she did his tendon transfer and thumb pinning in 05 and we had talked some about doing a bicep release or lengthening at some point. Well, my husband and I discussed it and decided that it would be a good thing to do for him. Well, when I called to make an appointment (about a year ago) the office told me that she was out on INDEFINITE medical leave and they had no idea when or if she would be back! :eek: She is considered one of the best hand surgeons in the state!!! I dreaded having to start over with someone else and I knew that Eli just loved and trusted her. You know that feeling when you lose a great doc... well, I literally prayed for her over the last year. Her office is right down the street from my husband's office and every day I would look up to her windows and just say a prayer that she would be okay - not just for Eli, but for her.
Then, in June Eli slipped on a tennis ball and fell right on his million dollar wrist. So after a trip to the ER to make sure it wasn't broken, the doctors there wanted him back to his surgeon so I called around and got some names of new ones. But on a whim, I decided to call her office and they said she was seeing patients only FOUR hours a WEEK!!! and that they would give his info and request to her and she would decide if she would see him or not! Well, way back in June, we got an appointment for yesterday. What a miracle. She looks so different, rail thin and years older -you can tell she really went through something horrific.
Well, she when she saw how much more spasticity Eli had developed (those pesky growth spurts) she decided it would be a good time, both growth-wise and to stem the tide of contraction, to do a three step surgery in October. She is going to do a "proximal row carpectomy", a biceps lengthening/release, and a flexor carpi ulnaris to ECRB transfer (another tendon transfer to help the one she did two years ago).
The carpectomy is removal of one row of the wrist bones to shorten the arm a bit and give the shortened muscles a little more room to function. When she introduced the surgery to me, she said some people think "What??" but I told her after a hemispherectomy, nothing is very shocking...
So, we will be scheduling around his fall break in October. I feel good about it and so glad that she is back and doing well.
I'll let you know when the date is set.
Love to all your babies!
Naomi
We went to see the hand surgeon again yesterday. I don't know if I've told you the story, but she did his tendon transfer and thumb pinning in 05 and we had talked some about doing a bicep release or lengthening at some point. Well, my husband and I discussed it and decided that it would be a good thing to do for him. Well, when I called to make an appointment (about a year ago) the office told me that she was out on INDEFINITE medical leave and they had no idea when or if she would be back! :eek: She is considered one of the best hand surgeons in the state!!! I dreaded having to start over with someone else and I knew that Eli just loved and trusted her. You know that feeling when you lose a great doc... well, I literally prayed for her over the last year. Her office is right down the street from my husband's office and every day I would look up to her windows and just say a prayer that she would be okay - not just for Eli, but for her.
Then, in June Eli slipped on a tennis ball and fell right on his million dollar wrist. So after a trip to the ER to make sure it wasn't broken, the doctors there wanted him back to his surgeon so I called around and got some names of new ones. But on a whim, I decided to call her office and they said she was seeing patients only FOUR hours a WEEK!!! and that they would give his info and request to her and she would decide if she would see him or not! Well, way back in June, we got an appointment for yesterday. What a miracle. She looks so different, rail thin and years older -you can tell she really went through something horrific.
Well, she when she saw how much more spasticity Eli had developed (those pesky growth spurts) she decided it would be a good time, both growth-wise and to stem the tide of contraction, to do a three step surgery in October. She is going to do a "proximal row carpectomy", a biceps lengthening/release, and a flexor carpi ulnaris to ECRB transfer (another tendon transfer to help the one she did two years ago).
The carpectomy is removal of one row of the wrist bones to shorten the arm a bit and give the shortened muscles a little more room to function. When she introduced the surgery to me, she said some people think "What??" but I told her after a hemispherectomy, nothing is very shocking...
So, we will be scheduling around his fall break in October. I feel good about it and so glad that she is back and doing well.
I'll let you know when the date is set.
Love to all your babies!
Naomi