This past week Carter met his surgeon. Dr Spencer will be doing Carter's surgery in place of Dr Kasser who is on medical leave for the summer.
Dr Spencer will be removing a little bit more of Carter's leg and making several revisions. One of the revisions will be cutting the tibia and the heel bone and fusing them together. She will also be cutting his achilles tendon and reattaching it to the bottom of his tibia not his heel pad like what was done in the 1st amputation. She will save some soft tissue to wrap over the bottom of his leg. This is in hopes to prevent the achilles tendon from pulling the heel pad back like it has done. There is a chance of changes to this plan while he is in surgery. Dr Spencer needed us to give her full permission to revise at her discretion. They are unable to really say for sure exactly what they will do once they open him up again. He will be in a cast like before and stay in the hospital until his pain is able to be managed at home.
His surgery date is June 16th. We will be going next week for pre-op to Childrens.
Thank you everyone for all your support during this rough time.
Here is a picture of Carter at his appointment with Dr Spencer last week at Childrens Hospital Boston in Waltham. I also took a picture of a beautiful tree outside our exam room that I have to show off.
3 comments:
That sounds really rough =/
I hope everything goes well with your boy. They both look really happy though! Chase looks just like I did as a kid (probably a better fisher though lol)
~peace and good luck!
Always the ham, eh? Love the shades Carter. Wishing you well on the 16th and a speedy recovery.
Wes is out of school that week so let me know if there is anything I can do to help you out. Without a doubt, Carter will be in my prayers. He is such a fighter and I'm so proud of you all.
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