The saga of Isaac's femur continues...

Last Thursday, we took Isaac to Primary Children's Medical Center to have surgery to straighten out his femur. The night before the surgery, he went to a great class at the hospital where he learned all about what would happen to him during the surgery. The morning of the surgery, we arrived at 6:30. He went into surgery at 8:00, skipping down the hall holding onto the anesthesiologist's hand, which made it easier not to cry when we said goodbye. Almost five hours later, his surgeon emerged to tell us all had gone well-- they'd removed the dead bone, straightened the leg, put in a metal plate and six screws (ouch!) to stabilize things, then wrapped him all up in a lovely green spica cast.

All prepped and ready to go:



















The brother and sisters descend the next day:















He'd actually been looking forward to his green cast and the chance to "spin like a turtle" while wearing it. When he woke up, he realized that another broken leg and another cast weren't as much fun as he'd been expecting. He spent the first few days a haze of narcotics. We hoped to take him home on Saturday, but he needed a permanent IV line for his antibiotics in order to come home, and when they tried to insert it on Saturday, it wouldn't go in. We came home Sunday afternoon after they finally figured it out.

Isaac is most excited about his wheelchair, the bag of presents his cousins brought, and the temporary suspension of the "no food on the carpet" rules of the house. He's finally feeling good enough to start crawling and rolling around, and I'm guessing that spinning will ensue in the next day or two. I'm most excited that he fits in the jogging stroller this time around, which makes walks around the neighborhood and the stores up the street possible. The plates and screws will come out in a year or two, but we're hoping this is the last major surgery, and definitely the last spica cast!

Home with lots of loot:



















We ate some "Isaac in a cast" cake to celebrate his homecoming:















Decorating the bedroom provided a much-needed diversion:














The patient in his wheelchair: