Deception. Acceptance.

Found out a few things today. One is I can't stop myself from verbally spewing in conversations. I kept interrupting the poor guy when he was going over Pip's MRI. The hubs even interjected to shut me up.

Anyway.. according to the MRI, her thigh bone is completely discombobulated for lack of a better word. The femoral head is at an angle that isn't normal. When her knee is straight, the head doesn't sit properly in her socket. And so, this must be fixed. So in less than a month (3 weeks, 5 days but who's counting?) she'll be having a Varus Derotation Osteotomy. He'll go in through the thigh and clean out her socket - more on this later - and then cut her thigh bone and then use pins and a bar to put it back together. Then he'll angle it the correct way and close her back up.

Then there will be 3 outcomes. First, and most probable she'll be out in a cast. Downside: Boo, cast, hiss, heavy, immobile, awkward shaping. Upside: immobile(I'm liking this idea for two reasons - no more taking off her diapers and she won't be able to reach the wound.) Plus if she is in it she can't walk so it'll be healing a little faster I'd think.

Outcome number two, which I'm not holding my breath for. She might come out with no cast. Hubs said you should've seen my eyes when he said that! I bet shock and hopefullness were all over my face. 51/49 are the odds. Upside: no cast yay! Downside: um.. what if she tries to walk? What if she falls? She'll most likely try to pull off the bandages. :/ there's a lot of why I think I might take a cast over not, as long as it's not 4 months again.

Last outcome - rhino brace. No cast just put the brace back on her. Okay I could do this one easy. But it still gives her access to the bandages and she knows how to walk in it. Bleh. We'll cross these bridges when they come I guess.

I also found it today that he never did an open reduction. He did a closed reduction. He only cut her open to cut tendons so he could do the reduction. News to me. I was always under the impression this past year that he did an open reduction. Ugh. Made me lose a little trust with him. But not enough to go elsewhere.

So the wait begins. He said it wasn't an absolute hurry to get in there but not something to out off for months. I told him beginning of next month is good with us. We're going to Georgia at the end of this month to see family but I don't want to wait past February. On January 27th we'll go back for pre-op screening and then back on February 8th for probably a two night stay. Gotta have them fax stuff to the RMH for Sunday night, Monday and Tuesday nights. And I know one of us will stay with her the other at the RMH.