Surgery #3

We are preregistered and ready to go for surgery number 3 for Grace. She is heading to the new Helen DeVos Childrens Hospital January 26 (a.k.a. Gotcha Day) to have open reduction surgery on her right hip. Both hips are currently dislocated and the sockets are very shallow. This surgery involves cutting 2 inches off her femur, putting a plate in, moving the femur into place in the socket and creating a lip out of bone to keep it in place. She will be in the hospital for at least 3 days. After that she will be in a spica cast for 6 weeks. As of last week she started having a change in her gait. Her doctor thinks the left hip might be slipping farther out of place. He will be injecting dye into the left hip during this surgery to get a better idea of what is going on that side. This will determine when we head back in for surgery #4. Did I mention she really doesn't care for doctors and definitely can't stand the hospital?