little bitty girl

Stefan finally managed to get an appointment to have surgery on his hand. The surgeon called to say that it was quite urgent that he get the surgery done immediately and why didn't we come sooner? We'd only been trying to get an appointment since it happened....

He came home with all sorts of zig zag markings to show where his hand would be cut. They're going to try to find the torn tendon but usually when it's left longer than 2 weeks, the tendon retreats lower. If that happens, then they'll have to fish it out of his wrist. They mentioned something about drilling the bone, sewing the tendon through the bone and putting in a stainless steel button . The surgery will take about two and a half hours. Oh, and they're going to do this all without knocking him out.

Can't you tell that I just love all sorts of random medical info? Anyway, I think it's better that they're not putting him under as speaking to several surgeon friends, there is always a higher risk when one is knocked out.

Since Stef is a naturally healthy boy, he's only really been in the hospital (for major things, baring natural scrapes and occasional stitches) twice. Once, when he was born and the second time when he was part of genetic testing group and they had to take some blood work from him.

Unfortunately, during the second time while doing a routine taking of blood, a trainee nurse had managed to let quite a bit of air into his vein. He had a golf ball sized bubble of air in his one vein and they had to keep him at the hospital for about 9 hours for observation.The doctor later confessed that it could have been fatal. Needless to say, Stef's been wary of hospitals ever since.

I have a feeling that he's not going to be the best of patients to look after as he's already saying what he needs before the surgery has even happened - movies, food, constant backrubs... He still needs to tell me how backrubs are going to help the healing of his hand.