Thursday, December 31, 2009

Jeremy's Surgery

Jeremy has had problems with his knees for many years and one finally got bad enough that he went to see a doctor. After many visits, blood tests, x-rays, and an MRI the doctors found that he had a significantly torn meniscus in his left knee. The procedure was supposed to be a 20 minute orthoscopic operation and he would have 3 days before he could really walk on it again.

But on December 3rd, when the surgeon was fixing his messed up knee he found that not only was the meniscus torn all the way through, but he also had some cartilage that had been torn up and the top of his femur bone had been scraped, so they drilled 10 or 12 little holes down from his knee into the marrow of his bone to stimulate blood circulation to the knee and speed up healing.

The added work prolonged his recovery time too. He was drugged up on the couch for 10 days and using crutches until he could actually stand on it. After 2 weeks taking it easy he has been improving every day. Now he is moving around and playing like before with the use of a knee brace…He’ll never learn!

Jeremy ha tenido problemas con sus rodillas por muchos años y una de ellas al final se puso muy mala que tuvo que ir al doctor. Después de muchas visitas, exámenes de sangre, rayos x y un MRI (Imágen de Resonancia Magnética) los doctores encontraron que tenía una rasgadura significante en el menisco de la rodilla izquierda. El procedimiento sería una operación ortoscópica de 20 minutos y el podría haber caminado a los 3 días.

Pero el 3 de diciembre, cuando el cirujano estaba arreglando su rodilla él encontró que no solo era un problema del minisco sino que también su femur se había rasguñado de alguna manera así que le hizo pequeños agujeros en su hueso para hacer circular la sangre y sanar el cartilago del hueso.
Esto hizo que su recuperación fuera más prolongada también. Jeremy estuvo tomando medicina para el dolor por más de 10 días y usando muletas para caminar. Después de dos semanas de recuperación él ha mejorado mucho. Ahora ya anda jugando como si nada… creo que él nunca va a aprender!

Waiting for 2 hours before surgery.

Jer got cold!Doctor came and marked his knee :o)

Pictures of inside his knee. On the fourth one you can see the meniscus flopping around.
All done!
Going home!
He was starving when we got home :o)
Only two cuts!

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