OK I know it's been a while since we have done a blog update... So here it goes...
I am going to start with Chancey's Bionic Thumb (or at least that's what Kory & I call it)! One little basketball injury is now 2 surgeries and one screw later and it looks like everything is going to hold. After the surgery in December and spending 3 weeks in a cast, Chancey started Occupational Therapy at the end of January. There were a couple of spots in the scar that just keep sticking out more and the therapist thought maybe it was a stitch or two. Back to Dr. Crane we go. Sure enough it appeared that there were a couple of stitches that had come to the surface and were trying to come through Chancey's skin. The big problem was is the stitches were actually the ends of the line that Dr. Crane had run through her ligament and into the screw to hold everything together. It was finally decided that the only way to fix things was to remove the stitches, Dr. Crane felt like everything was good and the ligament would hold on it's own! So March 13th was surgery #2, Dr. Crane removed the stitches and made sure that everything looked good. 5 more stitches which came out 10 days later and 14 days after surgery #2 Chancey played in a basketball tournament in Boise. Seems the Bionic thumb is good to go, although Mom has a heart attack every time she get's fouled, falls down and etc.
This picture is the day she hurt it playing basketball in May 2008.
This is the thumb following cast removal after surgery #1.
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