Thursday, was Erik's big day. His long awaited foot surgery. Erik was born with hammer toes on both feet, and just recently his left toes have started to cause him quite a bit of pain. A few months ago he decided to go see Dr. Beck and they decided it would be best to repair the toes on his left foot. So Thursday morning, we arrived at Mother Francis Hospital in Tyler for Erik's surgery. He was a little nervous!
In holding, before the surgery, in his pretty blue cap.
The surgery took about a hour, and everything turned out good. Originally, we hoped that internal rods could be used in Erik's toes to correct them. However, during the surgery they discovered that the internal rods would not hold and external pins had to be used.
Erik's foot after surgery. Those pins will stay in about two weeks and then be removed. As I write this, we are on post-op day#3 and Erik is getting along pretty well. He has quite a bit of pain in the morning but after he moves around some it improves. KK watched all of the kids while we where at the hospital and I am so thankful to her and her help. My children are so lucky to have great grandparents.
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