Day Eighteen Part Two

5:40 PM

Don has had a pretty good day. He has slept most of the day. He hasn't eaten anything since breakfast except a cherry Italian ice. He has been very cold and did have a fever of 99 point something. The hand surgeon came by and said he hated to tell us something different (that's a first) than what we had been told, but Don will have to have hand surgery this week. He has dislocated his left thumb again. So it will have to be put back in place and held with either pins or they can reconstruct the area with ligaments from other parts of his hand. They will be able to do this surgery with a block to his arm rather than put Don to sleep. This doctor feels like we do that it may set us back again if we put Don to sleep for another surgery. His surgery is scheduled for about 6:00 Tuesday evening. This doctor also looked at the incisions from the hip/leg surgery and said he thought that Don may be having an allergic reaction to the sutures. We will know more about this tomorrow. The helicopter came in this afternoon with a trauma patient and Don heard it. I told him what was going on and he said "I hope they have good luck". He immediately began to cry and tell my how sorry he was that I was having to go through all this. I told him I would rather go through this than not have him. He is very tired and just wants to go home. We haven't had PT today but he has had several breathing treatments. Please just keep praying!!