I realized that I posted all Dylanns updates on Facebook but not on here. I'm hoping someday Dylann will find it helpful to look back on all these events so decided to summarize how things went.
Surgery was on 11/1. She had a left hip osteotomy, right knee 8plates, removal of left femur plates, bilateral knee tendon releases, and bilateral Achilles tenotomies. The surgery took 4 hours but with all the prep and other things, about 8 from when she went back to when we saw her in ICU. She got an epidural for pain management so spent the first two days in the ICU. He said the surgery went great, her left knee straightened with just tendon releases and then the right improved a ton as well but did need the plates.
First day went just fine. She mostly slept and pain seemed controlled for the most part.
Second evening she had a pretty large meltdown that took Valium and three of us to calm her. She was upset we couldn't hold her and complained about her knee. Her O2 plummeted from there so she had to spend the night on oxygen.
Friday they worked to get her off the epidural and she had intermittent pain. We moved out of ICU onto the 5th floor in a room for 4. First night we didn't have a roommate. Her O2 still was falling too low so she spent another night On the o2. She also started getting fevers.
Saturday we got her off the oxygen but her fevers kept happening once a day and we couldn't leave until fever free of 24 hours. We were finally discharged Monday at 12 just in time to catch our 4pm flight. The plane ride went really well!
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