April 27, 2010

Barbara again:
Received a phone call at 7:30 last night, CP had fallen and broken his hip and had been taken by ambulance to the hospital. Reid and I jumped in the car and headed to the hospital. We called the family doctor and decided to have the current hospital stablize him and transport him by ambulance from Cameron, MO to Kansas City, MO since the hip is broken and will require surger to repair it. At 10:30 the ambulance arrived and the transport to KC began. Poor CP was in a lot of pain but he was a good sport about it. They ER doctor gave him heavy duty pain killers since the ambulance ride will take an hour.

We arrived at the hospital in KC at 11:45 and got CP into their ER and they had to start all of the assessments all over again. ER doctor shows us his hip x-ray...can you say ouch? The femur is broken below the ball jointn and broken length wise and peeled back like a banana. He will require a rod in that leg. If the ball joint had been broken he would have needed total hip replacement.

Reid and I left the hospital at 2:30 am and went home and slept until 5:30 am. The doctor said that we needed to be at the hospital at 6:30 am to discuss the options. We met with the surgeon and they tell us surgery will be at 5:30 pm. Reid stayed with CP and I went to work. At 2:30 Reid called me and said surgery had been moved up to 3:00 so went on over to sit with him during surgery. Surgery was moved back...don't know why...so it took place at 4:00. It lasted 90 minutes but all went well. We waited until CP was out of recovery and in his room before we called it a day at 7:30. My sister and brother-in-law stopped in to see CP and lend support.

I think Reid and I drove home half asleep.