Back In The Hospital

So poor Jason is back under the knife this week. He went into the emergency room on saturday because he has had a constant fever for a week now since he had his surgery last friday. The ER immediatley gave him an antibiotic through an IV in case he had an infection. Then the Ortho Doctor came in to see him and drew blood and pulled a bunch of puss from his shoulder. When the Doctor found out that the ER doctors gave him an antibiotic, he was not pleased. Pretty much that screwed up the results of the test. So he told him to go ahead and go home and come back in on Monday morning to run more tests and compare to the ones they just did, and it will give the cultures time to mature. So he came home after 8 long hours in the ER. Then that night around midnight, he started bleeding out of his cut! Totally freaked us both out. But we ran to the bathroom and let it drip into the sink. It was a gross mixture of blood and ooze. And it WOULDN'T STOP! There was nothing we could do to stop it, we went through bags and bags of gauze, and just kept changing it out about every hour. We called the Dr from earlier that day and he said they wouldn't even be able to do anything until monday (Jason's surgeon was out of town). So we just dealt with this at home, constantly bleeding. It was horrible, to say the least. Finaly, monday morning comes and we are in the hospital early. His surgeon looked at it and said that this is a very rare case, but pretty much he has an infection on the inside where they cut him open. He said it's just a chance thing and it happens only once in every 500 or so operations. He also said that the antibiotic they gave him ER really complicates things because it isolates the infection. (stupid ER!!)  So they got him in for emergency surgery to clean out the infection and take some sample to find out what it is. He had the surgery yesterday and it went well, the doctor said it was "as expected". They had luckily caught it in time before it had done any further damage to his surgery site and the work they had done last week. So, now Jason is laid up in the hospital, with a lot of bandages and tubes coming out of his shoulder to drain excess puss, blood, and infection. He will wait it out for a couple days and then wednesday go back to surgery to do it all again. If all goes well he'll be out of there by friday or saturday. This picture was taken last night. He said he's gonna try to get up and walk today! Go Jason!

Bony Bankart

Here are the after effects of Jason's second shoulder surgery. It's a pretty big cut! It looks like the just about cut the whole arm off! For those of you who don't know, he was having some pretty bad problems with his shoulder, like pain, and it kept coming out of joint, and he wasn't able to lift his arm above his head with it coming out and a lot of pain. So he went under the knife for the second time on this shoulder. The Dr said that they were working on him for about 5 straight hours and that it was a really long, hard surgery. They had to take a peice of bone from his clavical and put it in his shoulder to keep it in place and stop it from coming out of joint. He said that this is probably the most painful surgery that he could have had. It's gonna take a long time (5 months to a year) to recover from this and he has to go to physical therapy 3 times a week. Poor Jason! Here's to a quick recovery!! He is doing better and is able to move his arm a bit now. He hasn't had to take his pain meds as often lately, so he's very happy about that.