Linda,
The reason for using the bone bank is soley to keep from having the second surgery at the same time to recover from. Crystal's doctor does this as a routine, unless someone really objects. Her doctor is Dr. Krajbich at Shriners Hospital-Portland. He is one of the leading doctors in the world on spine surgeries and teaches procedures all over the world. A lot of times, the kids experience more pain with the bone grafts being removed from the hip or ribs than they do the pain from the actual scoli surgery. Some of the decisions that were made about Crystal's surgery was based soley on the knowledge the doctor gave us in our appointments. We absolutely trusted him, so the decision was an easy one for us. I hope that answered your question.
Pain management after surgery is the most important thing to recovery. The hardest day is going from the morphine pump to oral meds. But, if you pain management team is good, they will stay right on top of her pain. I don't think any of us can stress enough that you, as the parent, need to stay on top of them too. If you feel she is in pain, don't be affraid to check to see when her last pain meds where and if they can give her anything else for pain. Be assertive on this. There have been several mom's recently that have had some serious problems with pain management in the hospital and had some castrophies. So, stay on top of the pain meds. Keep track of when everything is given. The worst thing that can happen is to get behind the pain and have to play catch up, it can take a while to get caught up, or so it seems like forever to get caught up on the pain.
Hope I didn't overwhelm you.
Love and prayers.
'til later,
Nikki
The reason for using the bone bank is soley to keep from having the second surgery at the same time to recover from. Crystal's doctor does this as a routine, unless someone really objects. Her doctor is Dr. Krajbich at Shriners Hospital-Portland. He is one of the leading doctors in the world on spine surgeries and teaches procedures all over the world. A lot of times, the kids experience more pain with the bone grafts being removed from the hip or ribs than they do the pain from the actual scoli surgery. Some of the decisions that were made about Crystal's surgery was based soley on the knowledge the doctor gave us in our appointments. We absolutely trusted him, so the decision was an easy one for us. I hope that answered your question.
Pain management after surgery is the most important thing to recovery. The hardest day is going from the morphine pump to oral meds. But, if you pain management team is good, they will stay right on top of her pain. I don't think any of us can stress enough that you, as the parent, need to stay on top of them too. If you feel she is in pain, don't be affraid to check to see when her last pain meds where and if they can give her anything else for pain. Be assertive on this. There have been several mom's recently that have had some serious problems with pain management in the hospital and had some castrophies. So, stay on top of the pain meds. Keep track of when everything is given. The worst thing that can happen is to get behind the pain and have to play catch up, it can take a while to get caught up, or so it seems like forever to get caught up on the pain.
Hope I didn't overwhelm you.
Love and prayers.
'til later,
Nikki
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