Pj's Last Surgery for a while

PJ was admitted to Shriner's Hospital for Children in Houston on November 25. This was the second time we had tried to do this surgery. The first he was not admitted due to an ear infection. He was first in line for surgery the following morning. The surgery actually began around 8:20 after his IV was run and he was put to sleep. The finished about 11 am. He did have to have a breathing treatment as he woke up, due to some congestion in his lungs. Once they got him up he was fine. He cried for about an hour. Then he slept for a couple hours and by 3 o'clock he was awake and ready to play. He played and played in the floor until it was time to go to sleep.

His is now at home and recovering very nicely. It's only been a week and he's up playing with his brother and running around and helping me put up Christmas decorations. Oh yeah... I forgot to describe what kind of surgery it was. It was a humeral osteotomy. Ok for those faint of heart this sounds kinda gruesome, but I've come to peace with it and the other side made a WORLD of difference. They make a small incision in his upper arm, cut completely through the humerus bone, rotate it outward so that his hands and stuff are no longer so inwardly rotated. Then they use a small titanium plate to hold it all together. The plate will have to come out in 18 mos to a year after they were put in. That is hopefully his next surgery. Barring anything else popping up and surprising us.With his arms not so inwardly rotated anymore, he can get his palms to come together, instead of the backs of his hands. So now he will be able to clap, type comfortably, hold heavy objects that require 2 hands, and hopefully his arms will be in a better position to write as well.

Well that's about it for now. He is having one little issue we are going to address after the new year. His AFO's are uncomfortable and it looks as if his feet are beginning to curve in again. He just had surgery this spring/summer on them to remove a wedge of bone there at the curve. I'm hoping it will be something easily correctable with a Dennis Brown Bar or something of the like. I'm just hoping and praying it will not be something else that requires surgery.