Donnies Surgery 12 2009

Well this week has had much to much excitement for the Zellers. First off we froze up at the warehouse in Auburn. This has not happened in five or six years. We just don’t have that much freezing weather In Washington. After hours of using heat gun and little heaters we were able to get the water flowing back in the warehouse. That was on Thursday. On Friday Donnie went in for surgery. She’s been having trouble with her fingers for the past five or six years and her little finger was starting to curl we had gone into saw the doctor couple years ago and he thought it was arthritis after talking to her sister and looking on the Internet and all kinds other things we begin to think and maybe it wasn’t arthritis. So we asked to see a specialist and the doctor set up appointment for us to go see a specialist. After he looked at it seems that there is some silly disease or something that your skin attaches to the tendon in her finger and as the skin tightens it draws your little finger and other fingers in to a type of curl. So what happens is is the surgeon asked to go in and remove the skin from the tendon not a real funt procedure. Donnie was in surgery for about half an hour to 45 minutes as they separated the skin from her attendant. She was awake as they cut on her hand. They did have good drugs however. It took 2 days for her to really feel the pain and when she did ….....The doctor was able to straighten her little finger. About a week earlier they had put cortisone in another one of her fingers joints and that seemed to help stop the spread of whatever this disease is. So here is the pictures of higher finger before the surgery and in the club that they sent her out of surgery with. That test tube with a rubber stopper thingy is actually a vacuum tube to which pulls or sucks the blood and fluids out of the wound. They showed me how to change it if it was needed but it doesn’t look like it’s going to be. We go back in on Monday to have the bandage changed and taking care of and have a smaller bandage put on it I think they will tape the little finger in the next finger together To help it stay straight. She will have to have her hand in a special little cast at night for the next nine months to help keep the little finger straight. The doctor says that the finger would curl a little at first. But after a number of years she will probably have to have the same surgery again. Not our real fun thing to look forward to. I think she was in more pain on this little finger surgery than she did with her shoulder surgery several years ago.