We are home from the hospital after a nights stay for observation & Emma seems to be doing very well. The surgery took about 2 hours & Dr. G was very pleased & thought her hand/thumb reconstruction turned out better than he anticipated. He repositioned her thumb & shortened, moved some skin around on her hand to give her new thumb the wide span on her hand & that was all. He was planning on taking a tendon from her ring finger & attaching it to her thumb so it could be aposible but he said she already had muscles & tendon at the bottom of her hand so he used those.
Now unfortunately they did have to put a breathing tube in Emma during surgery but they had to use a smaller tube than normal due to her laryna malicia which probably helped her a lot. Her past complications & lack of O2 intake + poor breathing after surgery is why we had to stay over night but she did very well considering. She slept most of the time & thankfully slept all night until 8:30am this morning except when they had to check for vitals every 3 hours. Now Mama on the other hand, didn't sleep at all & is exhausted. As soon we got home I went straight to bed, tried to nap but was unsuccessful.
So far Emma isn't crawling with her cast on, she is scooting around on her bottom & isn't very happy about it. She is still pulling up to stand, although she is very wobbly since her cast is so heavy. (I will try to post pics of her cast so you can see how big it is). Pain wise, she seems to be doing well too. The only thing she has had so far today is some Mortin at 2pm & that is all. We do have heavy meds but we pain to give that to her at bedtime or if she seems really uncomfortable.
So she will be in her cast with decorated with green teddy bears (very few choices & most were bold/ugly colors) for 3 weeks & then he will continue to watch her from there. Dr. G did say she may have to have another minor surgery when she is around 8 to mobilize the growth plate in her new thumb or else it will end up being long than her fingers (since it is actually a finger reconstructed into a thumb). He will also continue to watch her right thumb since it is trying to turn inward & it has a small piece of extra bone floating inside.
Now unfortunately they did have to put a breathing tube in Emma during surgery but they had to use a smaller tube than normal due to her laryna malicia which probably helped her a lot. Her past complications & lack of O2 intake + poor breathing after surgery is why we had to stay over night but she did very well considering. She slept most of the time & thankfully slept all night until 8:30am this morning except when they had to check for vitals every 3 hours. Now Mama on the other hand, didn't sleep at all & is exhausted. As soon we got home I went straight to bed, tried to nap but was unsuccessful.
So far Emma isn't crawling with her cast on, she is scooting around on her bottom & isn't very happy about it. She is still pulling up to stand, although she is very wobbly since her cast is so heavy. (I will try to post pics of her cast so you can see how big it is). Pain wise, she seems to be doing well too. The only thing she has had so far today is some Mortin at 2pm & that is all. We do have heavy meds but we pain to give that to her at bedtime or if she seems really uncomfortable.
So she will be in her cast with decorated with green teddy bears (very few choices & most were bold/ugly colors) for 3 weeks & then he will continue to watch her from there. Dr. G did say she may have to have another minor surgery when she is around 8 to mobilize the growth plate in her new thumb or else it will end up being long than her fingers (since it is actually a finger reconstructed into a thumb). He will also continue to watch her right thumb since it is trying to turn inward & it has a small piece of extra bone floating inside.
