Under the Knife!!!

So I am contuining on the journey of updating our blog...

Dryw had ACL Reconstructive surgery on February 10, 2009. How did he tear his ACL you ask??...well for those of you who dont already know, Dryw decided it would be a good idea to get on his buddy's dirt bike the day before our wedding and pop up on a wheeling going down a resedential street in nothing but boardshorts and sandals... What do you think happened?? Yep--he wasnt used to the power band on the 250 dirtbikes because he rides a 450 and once it hit the power dand the bike went out from underneath him and he went sliding down the street with no shirt on and tweaked his knee right when he hit the ground...Lets just say he was in a lot of pain the day of the wedding and 4 months later we finally found out he had torn his ACL. (I wont ever let him live it down--and I give him no pity! lol)

Anyway...the day of the surgery was soooo long!! We woke up early and had to be at the hospital by 10:00 am...his surgery was at 1!!! They finally came in and wheeled him into the surgery room. It was supposed to only last an hour and a half...but lasted for almost 3!!! He was in the recovery room for a while because he has trouble coming out of the anastesia and no one was allowed back there...not even me or his mom!!! It was tough sitting there not knowing if he was ok...but finally they took him up to his room and we waited till he could keep food down and go to the bathroom so we could leave...it was pretty quick after he got back to his room...except he did keep falling back to sleep.

What was pretty funny...but I felt so bad...was that the nurse wheeling him out was pretty old and Dryw kept getting nauseous in the wheel chair on the way down so she kept having to stop so he could refrain from throwing up!! Finally outside and on our way home we had to do the same thing...stop because he felt like he was going to throw up...but he made it and he was a trooper.

A few weeks late we had to go back for the post op and his knee was still pretty fat, so the doctor had to drain it with a huge needle!! I had no idea he was gonna do it and I was in the room...I thought it was going to be worse than it was, but the needle was pretty huge!!! Here are some pics from the draining...(Dont look if you get queasy!!) Oh and I didnt take pictures the day of the surgery and now I totally regret it...oh well...enjoy these!!

This is Dryw right after the doctor drained his knee...he has a band aid where the whole was...it was pretty big!!!

Here is the dixie cup full of blood thagt the doctor filled...next to it is the needle he used...crazy!!!!

This is me after I saw how ig the needle really was...blood doesnt really make me queasy.