...but I feel a resolution coming on…. I feel a need to continue writing and updating my blog. I think it just may be the therapy that I need and if there is no one out there reading it, well, that is okay too.
It had been an interesting journey lately. At I mentioned much earlier, Jerry was hurting when he managed to summit Katahdin. The xrays taken in Maine showed no apparent injury to his arm or leg. Fast forward to the middle/end of November when he visited our internal medicine doctor. After another xray of his still hurting arm, which again showed nothing, an MRI was ordered. Ah, ha the cause of the pain showed itself. A torn tendon which connects the tricept to the elbow.
We visited an orthopedic man and surgery was scheduled. It went well until an infection reared its nasty little head a few days later. A round of antibodies did not do the trick so the doctor wanted to go back in and irrigate the wound. Okay, fine. However the morning before the second surgery Jerry missed the bottom step and landed in the ER. The incision was torn open but once the blood was cleared up things looked okay. So on to PT. The doctor stopped in and said everything looked okay. Not so. When they went in to clean out the wound the next day they found that the tendon had once again snapped. A 20 minute procedure turned in to a 2 ½ hour surgery. The doctor was not pleased he had to use the ‘old fashion’ technique to secure the tendon. Needless to say when Jerry woke up and realized 4 hours has passed he knew what had happened.
So now he is in a splint. Looking at a follow-up appointment with the doctor tomorrow. The next part of the adventure will be some long hard months of PT. The journey continues…..
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