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Please remember my 18 year old grandaughter as she faces knee surgery early Monday morning (l-3-11). Her kneecap will not stay in place. Right now, she is wearing a brace. The Dr. will reconstruct the ligaments on each side of the knee and then break below the knee and straighten the bone. She also has asthma and is concerned about being put to sleep.
I believe in the power of prayer and ask you all to please say one for my grandaughter.
Thanks and God bless you all.
Goody
this surgery with a knee that let’s her run like the wind in a few short months of healing and that her doctors will be blessed in their surgical abilities to give her a fast and speedy recovery.
Daughter your faith has made you well, go in peace, And be Healed of your disease.
Mark 5:34
In His name!
Granddaughter is out of surgery and in recovery. The doctor did an "inside lateral release" and he used a cadaver tendon for a ligament to give more support and to attach kneecap to thigh.
She is not completely awake yet, but she was hurting, so was given pain meds.
Thank you all for your prayers; please continue to pray for speedy recovery. God bless you all.
Goody
Hope your granddaughter continues to improve with each passing day. I will certainly pray for her full recovery.
knee surgeries (many of them from first hand experience) and it is no fun. Isn’t it amazing what the doctors can do with medicine and operations now-a-days? That and a prayer to the Almighty is the best thing in the world. Keep the updates coming and we’ll keep the prayers going!!!
All the best!
As someone who had knee surgery I know firsthand the pain it can cause so praying for a speedy and full recovery.
I remember before my husband had his gastric bypass the surgeon told us he didn’t know what our beliefs were but when he’s done with his job and everything’s closed up and dark inside there’s healing going on that he has nothing to do with and has no control over. That really made me have a lot of faith in that doctor because he admitted he’s not God as most would like you to believe they are. That and the fact that he believed in God I knew Don was in good hands anyway you look at it.
WOW that is powerful stuff!! I am praying for a healthy recovery also. Surgery is no fun, I know! She will do okay!
I hope your granddaughter is doing well. Please stress to her that it’s very important to listen to the therapists when she starts rehab and make sure she does the exercises and ices the area if they say to do that. I HATE icing any part of my body in the winter, but it really does help.
After surgery, Granddaughter came to my house because I have a ramp onto the porch and no inside stairs.
Weather permitting, she (LB) goes for a checkup tomorrow. I will be honest, I didn’t know just complex and painful the surgery would be. She has several longer incisions and several smaller laprascopic incision. The first 24 hrs. home, we had ice pack on knee for 30 minutes and then off for 30 minutes; any movement was very painful. Wed. was an awful day, bandages off and getting a shower; it was better today. Still using ice pack to control swelling.
Please continue to pray for her recovery, and that the exam tomorrow will not be too painful. Don’t know if stitches will be removed tomorrow or not, and I have no idea when she will be off crutches.
Thank you all for your prayers and concern. God bless you all.
Goody
heal so much faster than us older folks. Tell her one day at a time and take the time not to rush the healiing. Knees really take time to heal – there are so many moving parts! And…she wants to make sure she heals properly because at 18 she may not feel it, or 28, or even 38, but if she rushes the healing, at 48 and 58 she will feel it, with arthritis and joint pain. Patience is a virtue!
Granddaughter (LB) had a painful, but encouraging exam at the Surgery Center yesterday. Dr. said she can begin to put some weight on her leg, as she can, and she will begin therapy on Friday. She goes back in 2 weeks to have the stitches removed. He was well pleased with her progress.
Her college classes begin on Thursday of this week so she is very concerned about beginning classes on crutches; she is determined, so she will manage. She will have classes 3 days and therapy 2 days.
She still has a long way to go before recovery is complete; so please continue to remember her in your prayers. Thank you so much for your prayers and concern. God bless you.
Goody
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