Both pieces of the broken bone (scaphoid) were healing seperately which is bad because that particular bone has a blood supply running through it. So, they scraped off the healed parts, collected bone marrow from another bone in his wrist and sandwiched it between the two broken pieces, put a screw in it and wah-la!
Today they took off his splint and this is what I saw:
The nurse removed his stitches and we received nothing but great news from Doc!
He was put in a cast on Nov 23rd. After 8wks in a cast, 2wks in a splint, surgery, 2wks in another splint, 6wks in a splint and a bone stimulator post surgery, we can finally see a light at the end of the tunnel!
He's so excited that he doesn't have to do the cast thing again...and I am too :) <----they stink bad. Peee-yew!
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