As most of family now knows, Linda fell in a parking lot just before Easter, trying to stop a wind-propelled shopping cart before it hit a car. She knew she was injured but managed to get home even though she could barely press the accelerator.
I took her to ER where the doctor said it was probably a “frayed” Achilles tendon but nothing to worry about. Eventually we ended up at a foot specialist who pronounced her Achilles tendon as severed and in need of surgery. Since she needed to drive me to my eye surgery, her surgery was postponed till after mine so I could drive her to her surgery – what a double whammy!
Got to Henry Ford Bloomfield at noon, did not get home till after 8 PM. She had general anesthesia which meant a breathing tube down her throat and a local which meant a shot to the right leg nerve (above the knee posterior). She would be on her stomach for the surgery.
The surgery itself took over two (2) hours since they had to pull the ruptured Achilles tendon back down to her heel very slowly and then attach it back to the heel. Recovery will be quite long with the first two (2) weeks just lying around with the leg elevated; after that a cast and finally physical therapy.
What a way to spend the summer…
I took her to ER where the doctor said it was probably a “frayed” Achilles tendon but nothing to worry about. Eventually we ended up at a foot specialist who pronounced her Achilles tendon as severed and in need of surgery. Since she needed to drive me to my eye surgery, her surgery was postponed till after mine so I could drive her to her surgery – what a double whammy!
Got to Henry Ford Bloomfield at noon, did not get home till after 8 PM. She had general anesthesia which meant a breathing tube down her throat and a local which meant a shot to the right leg nerve (above the knee posterior). She would be on her stomach for the surgery.
The surgery itself took over two (2) hours since they had to pull the ruptured Achilles tendon back down to her heel very slowly and then attach it back to the heel. Recovery will be quite long with the first two (2) weeks just lying around with the leg elevated; after that a cast and finally physical therapy.
What a way to spend the summer…
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