THE PINKY!

I am sure many of you know all about Andy's horrible injury... to his pinkie finger ( I am not sure if you spell it pinkie or pinky). Anyways, he hurt it playing church basketball while trying to deflect a pass. It was dislocated and he had to pop it back into place while there on the court. OUCH!

On the way home, he and his friend stopped by the friends' dentist office to do some Xrays. They determined it was not broken, so we thought it would be fine. Well, it wasn't! After a week or two of wearing homemade splints, he went to the orthopedics. They tried numerous casts and physical therapy and finally an MRI showed that the tendons were torn on both sides of the finger. By the way, he said the MRI was the most uncomfortable thing. He had to go in the tube in a "Superman" position and stay that way for an hour.

They finally decided surgery was the next step. Here are some pictures before the surgery...

The day of the surgery seemed to last forever! The doctor got held up with a patient before him so we were waiting for hours in the pre-op area. They finally let us turn the TV on because they felt bad for us. Ironically we watched an episode of Raymond where the family gets news that the nurses were having a hard time waking Raymond up after a minor surgery, so for 30 seconds the family thinks he might die. It was a tad unsettling since Andy was about to go under in about 30 minutes! 

Thankfully he did wake up from surgery and was quite loopy. He was saying all kinds of crazy stuff and was very giggly. He kept asking the same questions, so I felt like our conversations were all on rewind. I was laughing so hard, I was crying. He asked if I was his FIRST WIFE. What's that supposed to mean??? And he was trying to figure out who was his favorite child. Oh my!

I was so very grateful to my friends Rebekah and Angie who watched the girls the ENTIRE day since it ended up taking so long. 

Recovering from the surgery was not pretty. He was really sick the next day. We thought he was having an allergic reaction to the pain killers, so I got them to prescribe him something else. He was still sick. After a day of laying flat on his back and throwing up every time he moved, he just switched to ibuprofen and things were much better.

Here is Andy with the monster cast after the surgery.

During the surgery they put metal wires on both sides of the bone and put a screw in the bone.

After 10 days, he got the stitches removed, but still had the wires in. The wire was sticking out of his finger and would be pulled out in a month.

OH SO GROSS!

 Don't worry, the pinkie is usually wrapped up, so everyone doesn't gross out.

The finger is still not 100%. He will be starting physical therapy soon, so hopefully that will strengthen the finger.

In case you can't tell, this has been quite the ordeal!