Monday, April 4, 2011

Dr visit with Ortho

On friday April 1, we met with the ortho. Let's see what was discussed....Left femur fracture is healing, slowly, but healing. We should be able to take the pins, and plate on the right, out in June or July. left tibea was x-rayed the new lesion there is easy to be seen by me now. It is on the inside of the bone and does not involve the cortex so does not cause much of a fracture risk. right clavicle. Sam hurt this two weeks prior in school while crawling for an obstacle coarse. He would not use his arm that day. I took him in to urgent care and had it x-rayed that day and was told it is not broken. the next day Sam woke in lots of pain and could not use his arm to steady himself for walking. I didn't send him to school. A week later I noticed the site near where the clavicle meets the sternum was swollen. I brought it up to Dr Healy and it was xrayed. No lesion there but Dr feels it was broken through the growth plate. it has a certain name that I can't remember now. the only way to know for sure would be a CT scan but since the fracture is displaced outward as opposed to inward (causing problems with bbreathing and eating) nothing is done with it. Dr Healy is ok with doing the hardware removeal surgery at the same time as the decompression. though the surgery needs to be far enough removed from the pamidronate therepy so I will not push to get that done before Kindergarten starts. since the surgery will not be until summer I want to set up an appt with nurology to see about meds to help stop the headaches.

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