Monday, August 29, 2011

Nathan's Hand Surgery...

Nathan's left hand before his surgery...The light shadow part in the circle is where the joint exploded when he landed on the cement after flipping over his companion playing basketball 5 days before he was released. If you compare it below you can see how far the bone sticks out to the left and after the surgery it is all back together and in the right position.
When the doctor got in there and was cleaning out all the shattered pieces he found a small piece of his joint still there and was able to attach the bone graph to the joint. The three pin-wires will stay in there for 4 weeks while it heals and then the doctor will take them out. He is quite hopeful but, there is still the chance that he will have to go back in and fuze the bone down the road if this doesn't work.  We are praying this will work...

1 comment:

Kathy said...

Ouch... Hope everything heals well.