Who's up for round 2? Hip surgery the second time.

This week was a little crazy. Seriously kind of a whirlwind. On monday, exactly one week after her surgery we went in for an xray to make sure everything looked good. The doctor didn't seem thrilled by the results. He said he couldn't quite tell if the hip was still where it needed to be but he didn't seem very confident so he scheduled us an MRI on Wednesday.  Wednesday we went to the MRI and tried to do it without sedation since it was only a five minute scan but she did not like the machine once it was turned on so they had to give her some mild sedation. I'm so grateful for her and how wonderful Elli is with this kind of stuff. She is so chill and even when they were putting in her IV she just played with their watches. She is pretty awesome and amazes me everyday.

After the MRI we went to dinner with Jill before she left to go back to Cedar. About halfway through dinner I checked online on my health and the radiology report was available. It said that her hip was misaligned still and there was a small fat pocket in the deepest part of her socket that was in the way. So we have to go back to redo her surgery and have an open reduction where they have to cut into her and scrape the socket. So that was upsetting to find out. We had to wait until the next day to find out when they could get her back in for surgery. I was really convinced that it wasn't going to happen until our cast change was scheduled in October so I was really sad to have to wait but the next morning the doctor called, told us she would have to have the open reduction like we thought and that they had a cancellation on Friday and they could do it then. I was so relieved that it was so soon.  I was seriously sad about the idea of having to wait longer to just finally get all of this over with. So we went in that day and got her cast cut off. She was not a fan of the saw at all and cried like crazy. But after it was off she was so happy. She is already so much skinnier in her legs than she was 10 days ago when the cast got put on. It makes me so sad to see and think how skinny she is going to be when she is finally done with casts. We had a very fun day. We cuddled, rolled all around the floor, and went swimming again. I loved it and so did she. We also had another very good bath.

The next morning we went back into surgery, she was a little grumpier this time but still handled it like a champ. It really went great. The surgery was fairly quick and the cast was basically the same this time as last time.

She was pretty groggy and tired so she just slept most of the day. We were supposed to stay the night but everyone there said that Elli was doing completely amazing and so they let us go home rather than stay the night which we were very grateful for. It was a long night with her trying to overcome the anesthesia she ended up just sleeping in bed with us and did okay that way. She was on pain medication but only for two days after other than some ibuprofen to keep the stiffness away. And she once again handled this cast and surgery like a champ. I'm so proud of her and grateful that everything has gone so smoothly for her.

We had another set of xrays 10 days after her surgery and everything looked perfect. The hip was exactly where he wanted it so we are very relieved. He surprised us by keeping her cast change scheduled for the same day it was already on October 17th. So she will only be in this cast for 4 weeks total before the change to a shorter cast. We are pretty relieved about that and so grateful that it is working for her now.