Van's 2nd Surgery

Saturday after surgery, doing good!

Right after surgery.

Van's 2nd surgery was this past Friday. The plan was to cast the foot that was operated on last week and then fix his left foot. We should have been prepared that since the fist surgery went so well-the 2nd would not. Well-let me say the surgery itself went well-everything else not so well.

Apon arriving at 6 a.m. we were put in the open floor PICU area-this is the area for day surgeries and what not. It is just not the same as having our own room or bathroom. We were then brought down to pre-op at 6:30. So there in a very small, busy area Lance, Van and I sat and tried to keep busy for 2 hours. Thank goodness Van feel asleep. All the Dr. checked him out and off he went.

Lance and I went to the family waiting room. After 1 1/2 the volunteer came over to us,we both thought boy that was quick! And the volunteer told us-they just started surgery-we panicked for a little bit wondering why it took so long to get started. We later found out they had a very, very hard time getting an IV in. Van had over 20 pricks, 6 Dr.'s trying and finally a ultrasound machine to find the vain in his head.

So surgery on his foot went well and as Dr. Gordon told us- his foot definitely needed the surgery to be fixed. His muscle in his right foot was not stretching like Dr. Gordon would like and believes there will need to be some more work done with Van as he gets older. As for now we are going back to the hospital on Monday morning 5:30 am. for a quick sedation ( no needles) to get new casts on both feet. We are hoping to get tye dyed casts this time!

As for Van at home-he is pretty good. He does not seem to be in to much pain, but very frustrated on his lack of choices- which is his back, his tummy, his highchair and a floor chair. The funny thing occurring is the cast/splint allows Van the strength to get into crawl position very easily, even scooting backwards a little bit. Last night he did a complete circle around me. I will try and get a video of this up soon.