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RPBrown wrote:
By the way, could you dance before surgery?

Yes, but am a little rusty. I promised Mrs. Anygun that she could count on a regular dance outing once this last Canada job was over. She does love to be waltzed and two-stepped to some Texas tunes.

Venus Pax wrote: Will they have to go in and remove any metal hardware?

The orthopedic surgeon suspects he will have to remove the long screw holding the fibula to the tibia (looks like a 2" deck screw).

Anygun

RPBrown wrote:
God grant him a speedy recovery.

By the way, could you dance before surgery?

Ahhhhh, but will you be able to play the piano? That ... is the question!

Anyway, Anygun, we're saying praises for great Dr.'s and good outcomes. Now, we'll keep pounding the Gates of Heaven for a complete recovery and lessening pain.

Blessings!!

Whoever said prayers don't help obviously do not know of what they speak.

Praise God!

Mrs. Anygun and I went to the orthopod yesterday. My left leg is healilng so well he did not apply a hard cast, just a removable walking "boot". I start physical therapy next week to keep the joint flexible and return to full range of motion. No weight bearing load, still on crutches.

I have to really be careful to not put weight on it since it feels so good.

I have been practicing my lateral movements on crutches while holding my Kimber in my teeth.

Thank you again.

Anygun

Be careful. One wrong move, and you'll be asking if anyone knows a good orthodontist.

KC5AV wrote:Be careful. One wrong move, and you'll be asking if anyone knows a good orthodontist.

I crutched my way into the doctor's office this morning and walked out.

Thanks again for all of your continued prayers on my behalf.

I have to have a small surgical procedure to replace some of the hardware for long-term reliability later this year.

The orthopedic surgeon told me that my leg will remind me what I can and can not do once I reteach it how to walk. It is healed to the point where it would require the same energy to fracture the bone as the original break.

Thank you, God.

Thank you, brothers and sisters, friends all!

Anygunanywhere

Great news. Thanks for the update.

Thank you for the update. Thank you Lord for the healing of a terrible break.

Tomorrow morning Mrs. Anygun and I head to Hermann Hospital for my final surgery. I am having some hardware replaced. The surgeon claims it is "only ten minutes or so with an 18 volt DeWalt". I should be home early afternoon and on light duty for ten days or so. The leg feels better every day so hopefully it will continue.

Thank You Lord for all of Your blessings and healing gifts.

Anygunanywhere

good luck!

are you gonna keep the screw?

Thank the Lord for your progress.
For tomorrow too.

You continue to be in my prayers

TexasComputerDude wrote:good luck!

are you gonna keep the screw?

We are home. Yes, I have the screw. At least the biggest piece.

The surgeon was concerned that the screw would break into pieces or wallow out around the threads and pull out. I felt it break Monday while hustling our stuff preparing for Edouard. I had just carried a load upstairs into the garage storage when I felt a sharp pain in the ankle and a throbbing the rest of the day.

I was prepped and waiting for surgery when the anesthesiologist arrived. Mrs. Anygun (RN) and I told him about my intubation fiasco during the initial repair surgery last March.

The surgeons first attempt to repair my leg was foiled because the gas passer could not intubate me. I woke up from the anesthesia doing a beat down on the gas passer while two OR nurses were trying to restrain me. It must have been not being able to breathe or something. I was bleeding orally from several gashes in my throat and mouth. I wish I had the video. BTW I was a paramedic for 12 years and did my clinicals at Hermann Hospital on Dr. Red Duke's Trauma team and at Ben Taub under Dr. Paul Pepe.

I have a few intubations on my resume, some in moving ambulances, one in the manway of a cat-cracker at the Exxon Baytown refinery, and several while kneeling in fire ant mounds.

This time the gas passer suggests a nerve block. I told him that didn't work either last time. He told me he didn't do the last one.

We decided on the Sciatic Nerve Block. This time it did the job. Almost. The surgeon came in and greeted me with his usual OR banter, grabbed my leg and began cutting down to the bone. I feel the pulsations of the drill. He informs me I broke the screw and that he must dig the broken end out from the other side (the inside of my ankle).

I was wondering if he had any surgeon easy-outs.

He starts to cut down through the meat. "Hey, that hurt" I thought to myself. He cuts again really deep. "I feel that!" I say. He informs me no more cutting and to man up and be quiet. The gas passer asks if I want to go to sleep and I decline. Bones have few nerves so the rest of the procedure is uneventful until he put the sutures in.

I am walking fine, no soreness yet, just a few sutures to tend to.

The screw will soon be a dangling bauble that will trigger interesting discussions. Mrs. Anygun says I deserve it.

Thanks again to you folks.

My eternal thanks for MY Lord providing me with His blessings even though I do not deserve them.

Anygunanywhere

Prayers to you for a complete and speedy recovery. Don't you just love those surgeons?