Monday, April 11, 2011

Mom's surgery didn't work; Lucy is doing amazingly well!

So, I took Mom today for her hip x-ray, and it shows that it is not healing; so it didn't work. Now we are looking at doing a full or partial hip replacement. I will be taking her tomorrow to see her Primary Care doctor, and we will ask her (and call her Liver doctor and ask him), if they want her to use a Sutter surgeon, since they are both Sutter doctors, and don't have privileges at Mercy; or should the last surgeon just do it again. Things are still really busy right now, but Lucy is doing amazing! She doesn't have the wheelchair at all anymore, and only has to wear her brace while she is out and about. She can move her foot all around, and just has some strength issues with her right foot, and some balance issues. Her therapy has been moved to 2x a month, instead of 2x a week - Yay! So right now the schedule is that I will be taking Mom back to Tanya's house toward the mid/end of this week, because I have to take Lucy to Utah for the studies and to see her Dr. there the beginning of next week. When we return, I have to get things ready, because Mom, Tanya and I have to spend the next week in San Francisco to do all of the panel testing to see if we can get Mom on the liver transplant list. We are hoping to get her hip surgery done shortly after that. The good news about that, is that it won't take so long to heal with the replacement surgery, so she will be back home in under a month after the surgery (and possibly the week after the surgery, depending on how it goes). So all is well. I will blog when we have any new news regarding Mom - so you don't have to wonder or worry, no news is good news! Thank you for your continued thoughts, well wishes and prayers! We love you!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks, Debbie - Love your blogs!

Debbie said...

Your welcome!! Love you!