Well HOP to it!

Happy Easter from The Osero's

All of the baskets n eggs were found in about 30 mintues....guess the Bunny needs to do a better job of hiding them next year :)

My AWESOME kids!Avrianna snapping pictures of us ~What a wonderful holiday! We had Papa n Claudia down to celebrate Easter with us. We went over to my Aunt's house for lunch, this was the first holiday in a few years that we actually went to someone else's house. As always the house was a buzz with stories and jokes, great times....great times!
I know I've been slacking on the recovery updates. No news is good news though. We've been without a nurse,those part timers think they should have a holiday off once in awhile ~ LOL, so I can use that excuse as I've been spending some awesome one on one time with my Lil Man. I've missed being his only one, BUT boy is he high maintenance, LOL. I'm exhausted ~ I can't lay all the blame for that one on Danny .... I also forgot how much fun it is with having NO time restraints so we've been out n about shopping :) With the weather being so great

and Danny doing WONDERFUL, we just kept going. Retail therapy ~ AHHHHHHHhhh!

Danny giving the PICU nurses some grief....miss you guys!

We were out of the hospital less then 48 hours after surgery and not to mention tolerating his feeds already....Oh My that is a record, I think :) It is so nice to see Danny so comfortable, it just goes to show you how much pain/discomfort he was in on a daily basis. We did have alil scare

the first morning we were home with bleeding from his port site, but Dr Kasper came over to the house and checked it all out. For whatever reason Danny started to bleed alil Thursday evening when we got home by the time the morning came around it looked as if it was still bleeding. The fear was the port had a possible malfunction, but thankfully it was only a VERY large clot. Once that was removed and we had a pressure dressing on it for the day, the site stopped bleeding. Dr K was able to draw labs on Danny, when he was here, to see if he was going to require a blood transfusion. I had requested Danny's labs that were taken in the hospital be faxed over so we had a comparison to go by. Seeing the labs there was a concern as his levels were continuing to drop since surgery, I was surprised they let Danny go home with the #'s so low. Danny must have lost alot of blood during surgery.....and afterwards. Once the labs that, Dr K drew, came back we all could take a breath, because, things were stable, they weren't dropping anymore which was a relief to hear. Danny will be on extra iron to supplement for the next 2 months while his body is now working double time to make new blood cells. Other then the bleeding scare Danny has been a ROCK STAR! He hasn't had any pain meds, not even Ibuprofen or Tylenol since he left the hospital. AMAZING how his leg can be cut down the side, all the bruising, with his bone cut off and he is in NO PAIN. I can pick him up and no issues. He can sit in his chair for hours and NO issues. I can change his diaper and NO ISSUES. I can't believe it!

See for yourself it looks like it hurts ~ (taken Easter morning 5 days post op)

Yellow bruising on top and into the groin area

Still swelling n purple bruising on the bottom .....The abductor wedge he has to wear.....NOT impressed with this one too much......see where the horizontal tape is in the middle, around the top to middle of that piece of tape is how far down they removed the bone. Not only did the surgeon cut the head off he cuts down about 1/3 of the femur bone to make sure there will be no rubbing into the hip socket anymore

Here is Danny's Med port siteit looks like a life saver in his chest :)I'm a ROCK STAR! My mom says so......And his poor eyes still look as if he'd been in a fight.... this is what happens with wrong tape, grrrGunner was very excited because as if this morning the cone of shame had been removed and put away. All four of his paws are healed and he isn't licking them anymore. Another long haul with the dew claw removal, but definitely not as drawn out as Bailey was last spring. Bailey's ear is healing nicely too. That was a relief as I was not looking forward to having to go back to the vet to have a drain sewn in. I have met my vet quota for the month, LOL. So I'm hoping they take it easy on me next month.

Thanks for following us through yet again another journey. Your support means the world to us. Take care! and let us know you stopped by :)

Do I know my Lil Man?

Danny is great with all his procedures yesterday :). Surprisingly he came up to the room awake, I hadn't planned on seeing those baby blues till some time today. He came up to the room about 6:30pm, on a vent, with out his PCA (pain Pump). So things were a lil crazy trying to get him settled and comfy. Thankfully he has nurses that are already "seasoned" by Danny -LOL. They were/are wonderful with him. Once again it helps ease the admission when you have friendly/familiar faces that know most of Danny's Lil curve balls. Unfortunately we weren't as lucky with the RT and NP at admission/during the nite - so the nite wasn't as smooth sailing as I had hoped but all is WONDERFUL this morning. Once I saw Danny's #1 RT walk in the door I knew things were going to go better for Danny's recovery path. Jackie is AWESOME!! We LOVE her as she knows what needs to get done, she follows through, she is patient, and kind and on and on. With Danny she is His ROCK - RT is so important in Danny's world :).
The med port was placed in Danny's chest for the second procedure. The surgeon said that it was a lil trying to thread the catheter under Danny's clavicle but he was successful in getting it in the optimum spot. Go figure Danny presenting a challenge to the "new" doc. As this is the first time Danny had to be seen by a general surgeon. I know I can't believe it myself, but all the other surgeries or procedures have been done by a specialist. They haven't accessed the med port yet as they left the PICC line still in....it's an access he already had so why pull it until we know for sure the port is going to be a good thing for Danny (ie infection or allergy reaction).... just in case we have access as they tried to get an IV in during surgery and they were not able to.
Then the ENT took a look at his ears once again. They still did not look the best especially the right side. There is still granulmona and scar tissue in the right ear. So Danny got his ears deep cleaned and new hypo allergic tubes in both ears. Once the tube was put in the right side a lot of blood started draining out of it, YUCK!
The day nurse and. Ite nurse was herd in the room when he came up from OR so Danny was tag teamed. It was a good thing as he was a Lil high maintenance once on the floor. From bleeding out of the trache, out of the ears, the wound dressing was filling up with blood, getting the PCA on the floor to get him more comfortable they had their hands full. Danny just loves getting all the attention.
The ear drainage has slowed down a lot and he is no longer bleeding out of his trache :). His incision site is still touchy and along with his blood work being a lil off this morning he might need some blood product to boost him up.
The best news is, he is OFF the VENT. Last nite was awful with Danny being on the vent as he fought it all nite causing more grief then good for him. Danny breathes so slow and shallow when sleeping the machines don't recognize it so it will steal Danny's breath away when he really is breathing...then causing the machines to alarm and on and on. We went through weeks n months of this when they wanted Danny to be on the C/Bi-pap. Once Jackie came in and saw he was on a vent she did her thing got him off the vent, in a matter of minutes and he is resting and breathing comfortably :). It's looking better for sleep tonite-wooohooo. I've been up since 2am so it's a Jammie/nap day today...visitors beware -LOL.
I feel a headache coming on.....can't imagine why? So looks like my nap time is near!

Hip surgery is done!

Danny is doing GREAT! Dr Tassone came up to the room around 5pm (Danny will be in 410) to let me know his part is finished. Everything went well. They took the screws and plate out from the first hip surgery in Dec 08 and then removed the head and part of the femur bone. Once that was removed he flapped up the muscle in the empty space to use as a cushion. Once the doctor was able to see inside he said that the dislocation actually started to wear down the bone which can be painful. Boy it hate it when I'm right - sigh. Now hopefully Danny will be in a lot less pain. Danny has about another hour to go in the OR and then they will bring him right back to the room from the OR. I can't wait to see him
I'll post later