Surgery

The doctor said surgery was required to get the floating bone fragments and reattach or remove them. He was aiming for arthriscopic surgery, but let us know that it may turn into something more based on what he found inside.

He did well with his first ever I.V. The therapist did a good job and got it on the first try.

This is Dr. Sokolow, the orthopaedic surgeon. He has a child at F.A. He also treated Dwayne with his torn ligament two years ago.


The anesthesia is starting to kick in and Derrik is relaxing.

It turned out to be major surgery, not outpatient. Six hours later, we saw Derrik in his room in the pediatric wing. They put him there so I would have a decent accommodations for sleeping.

The doctor said this was the worst injury of this kind he had ever seen. Derrik's knee cap was totally on the side of his leg, there were three big floating bone fragments, over 75% of the teflon in his joint was gone and there was a mess of small debris. Dr. Sokolow screwed one large piece of bone back onto his knee cap, tightened some tendons on one side and cut some on the other side, cleaned out the tiny stuff and stitched him back up.