Surgery Update......

Zach is doing OK.
He was in surgery for 6 hours.
The doctor feels it was a success.
Bone and artery/vessels from the knee all worked real good.
The bone fragment that actually fractured off and caused this whole mess doc was a little disappointed in.
It was "softer" than he would like to have seen.
But there was a portion of it that was hard enough to hold the screw well.
He feels that with the bone graph and the artery graph he was able to do that there will be a very good blood flow to that pesky bone portion.
The screw is permanent. But the two pins that are poking out of his wrist will be removed when the healing is complete.
The scare was that Zach had a very hard time waking up.
He spent over 3 hours in the recovery room.
Scared the daylights out of us when we first seen him.
He did not look like our Zachary.
His face was all swollen and fire engine red.
For whatever reason , we have not gotten an explanation, of why he had over 5 bags of fluid pumped in to him. Which is why he is so puffy. And both nurses said that was unusal for a patient to have so much.
That catheder of his is going to get a workout with all that fluid!!
He had a hard time getting the pain under control for awhile tonight.
He tends to hyperventilate whenever he is in severe pain.
(Like when he smashed his finger.And when he got hauled off the football field in an ambukance.)
Then they upped the dose and he found his comfort level.
I'm sure he would differ with that comment.
WHAT comfort???

Doc also informed us that if every thing goes according to plan that he will be dismissed on Mon. or no later than Tues.
For our sake we are hoping Mon. or else Daryl and I will have to run home and take care of some time sensitive business and turn around and drive right back. Being it is 4 hrs one way we have our fingers crossed .Time will tell.

Well thats all for today. Yawn.........