Today and Carring Bridge
I was goging to write yesterday but my wife sidelined me with wanting to post on CaringBridge. I don’t know if you would like to follow what Mel says over there the url is http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/haleymetzger.
Righ now I am sitting in a private roome reserved for us during the surger. It’s amazing that we have this private room and they call us every hour during the surger to keep us updated. they were susposed to call us when the surger began but i don’t know if they did because the phone was turned all the way down. Anyway my expectation is that they have started and probably already are in her back at this point. I hate thinking about it but I know that things will be much easier for her after the surgery is over.
Yesterday we met with Dr. Park in the morning and spent about 3 hrs being evaluated, haveing x-rays, and going through therapy. Dr. Park gave an excellent review about what he expects Haley to be able to do. He expects she will be able to run, jump, sit and walk more freely and fall less. He was very complimentary of us saying that he would expect in a child like Haley he would have expected to see her much more bent in the knees. He said it is due to the therapy and us that she is doing so well. That made us feel good. He also predicted that by the end of the month she should be back to her current level.
Later in the day my daughter visited a specialist up here named Dr. Brunstrom. She is a neuroligist who has Cerebral Palsy her self. She is also the medical advisor to the non-profit Let’s Cure CP. Unfortunatly she thinks the recovery period to reach Haley’s current level is four months. I’m an optimist and will work hard with Haley to make it sooner rather than later but the truth is we just don’t know. Dr. Brunstrom aslo said we would probably need to do another surgery in the next 3 -4 years where we extend the hip socket join, rotate the ball in the hip socket, and cut and rotate her feamers. We’ll have to see how she recovers from the surgery and not worry about it until after we recover.
They just called to say the surgery is starting, she has already been back there for an hour. I’ll write more later
