Saturday, December 5, 2009

Tanner's surgery update

Tanner had surgery yesterday at 7:30 am. He was nervous as anyone would be, he was playing it cool until about 10 minutes before the surgery started. That's when he started to cry. It just broke my heart. Then the wonderful CRNA (one of Kevins friends) came in with the wonder drug Versaid (SP?) He was all smiles then, and was goofing around. Until they had to wheel him off, thats when the tears started again for him and me. The surgery took just over an hour. Me and Kevin went into a confrence room to talk to the Doctor. He told us that things went well, he was able to take the plates and screws out, clean and scrape the infection off his bone. The infection was deeper than he was hoping, so he will be put on an antibiotic until the results come back from the lab about what kind of bacteria was growing. Thats when we will find out if he will need to go to an infectious disease doctor and get a pick line put in so he can get antibiotic through an IV. We are hoping that the antibiotics by mouth will do the trick. He is home now and resting pretty comfortably with a dose Percocet every 4 hours. I sure hope we are all done with this broken arm stuff, it sure does make me feel so greatful that my kids are healthy. I hate to see him in so much pain and can't do anything about it.

4 comments:

Weston said...

Ohhh pool little Tan Man...we wish we were there with you guys! Hope the healing process goes as planned without any more issues. Miss you guys!

Joey and Nettifer said...

I am so sorry! Darn it. Who would think it would turn in to something this big. I hope he heals fast he is young and strong!

kristy clark said...

Glad we got to talk to you. You sounded great. I hope you continue to improve. I love you!!

The Nortons said...

I didn't realize that he was going through such a rought time with all this. I am so sorry to hear that he had to have surgery (again...) I hope that everything clears up this time!