TexasComputerDude wrote:good luck!
are you gonna keep the screw?
We are home. Yes, I have the screw. At least the biggest piece.
The surgeon was concerned that the screw would break into pieces or wallow out around the threads and pull out. I felt it break Monday while hustling our stuff preparing for Edouard. I had just carried a load upstairs into the garage storage when I felt a sharp pain in the ankle and a throbbing the rest of the day.
I was prepped and waiting for surgery when the anesthesiologist arrived. Mrs. Anygun (RN) and I told him about my intubation fiasco during the initial repair surgery last March.
The surgeons first attempt to repair my leg was foiled because the gas passer could not intubate me. I woke up from the anesthesia doing a beat down on the gas passer while two OR nurses were trying to restrain me. It must have been not being able to breathe or something. I was bleeding orally from several gashes in my throat and mouth. I wish I had the video. BTW I was a paramedic for 12 years and did my clinicals at Hermann Hospital on Dr. Red Duke's Trauma team and at Ben Taub under Dr. Paul Pepe.
I have a few intubations on my resume, some in moving ambulances, one in the manway of a cat-cracker at the Exxon Baytown refinery, and several while kneeling in fire ant mounds.
This time the gas passer suggests a nerve block. I told him that didn't work either last time. He told me he didn't do the last one.
We decided on the Sciatic Nerve Block. This time it did the job. Almost. The surgeon came in and greeted me with his usual OR banter, grabbed my leg and began cutting down to the bone. I feel the pulsations of the drill. He informs me I broke the screw and that he must dig the broken end out from the other side (the inside of my ankle).
I was wondering if he had any surgeon easy-outs.
He starts to cut down through the meat. "Hey, that hurt" I thought to myself. He cuts again really deep. "I feel that!" I say. He informs me no more cutting and to man up and be quiet. The gas passer asks if I want to go to sleep and I decline. Bones have few nerves so the rest of the procedure is uneventful until he put the sutures in.
I am walking fine, no soreness yet, just a few sutures to tend to.
The screw will soon be a dangling bauble that will trigger interesting discussions. Mrs. Anygun says I deserve it.
Thanks again to you folks.
My eternal thanks for MY Lord providing me with His blessings even though I do not deserve them.
Anygunanywhere
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