Spencer's Surgery

Spencer, in pre-op apparently not realizing the excrutiating pain he'd be experiencing in a matter of hours :(

(He is actually laughing because he knows I am taking this picture for the blog and he is beside himself!)

Well on Friday, July 11th, Spencer went in for his surgery. It was only supposed to be same-day surgery, but when he went to recovery they were unable to get his pain under control so they admitted to the orthopedic floor for the night. His surgery lasted three hours and he was in recovery for almost two more hours, making a long day for me in the waiting room. When the surgeon finally came out and told me the knews I was glad everything went ok.

So, basically they went in with a scope to repair the ACL. To do this they stripped some of his hamstring ligaments and grafted them on to his damaged ACL, this part went well. Next they tried to pin the piece of bone that had broken off of his tibia, however they couldn't get it to adhere in a manner that would heal properly so they just took it out! Here's a pic, they brought it out to me in a cup. It is a little bigger than a quarter, but apparently not too important since they removed it.

This is Spencer's "cankle" he does not find this as funny as I do, but I had to document this for posterity!

Here is his leg all wrapped up with the ice machine going, he borrowed a machine just like this from a friend last fall when he hurt his shoulder and it was heaven, so I'm glad they gave him one after the surgery. When he was leaving the hospital he said "do I get to take this?" and they said "yep, you already bought it." So, there you go....he is still in a lot of pain and we are waiting for the upside, unfortunately after all of this, he threw his back out this morning...poor guy can't catch a break!