I received this just now: From Lauren
I have good news and slightly bad news. I like good news first, so
that is where I will begin... Chopstix left leg has thus far been the
better of the two. Dr. Bentley has decided from looking at Chopper's
new x-rays from today that even with plates, he will not be able to
improve upon Chopper's left front leg without breaking it again. It is
healing, all-be-it not perfectly, but it will only be slightly
crooked/curved and shouldn't give her trouble later on. The slightly
bad news is that we are now going to try to wait 30 days before trying
to salvage her right leg. It is not very straight or strong right now.
The tendons are so loose that her foot just flops. Because of this, we
are concerned that she might have to have her wrist joints on her
right leg only permanently fused. If this has to happen, we would like
to only have to do such a surgery once instead of plating her leg
today, then four weeks down the road re-placing the plate and fusing
her wrist. Her leg would eventually look like swiss cheese, and then
probably bleu cheese when it started to crumble from all the holes
drilled through it
Anyway, the bottom line is that her left leg is
okay for the moment, and her right leg is crappy. Chopper on the other
hand is resting peacefully as she was sedated and prepped for surgery
that didn't take place. I will kiss the baby for you all, and thanks
for all the prays sent Chopstix way today. They did help...her
pre-anesthetic bloodwork came back perfect! I am disappointed because
I really wanted to get this ball rolling so that we could at least say
that we were making progress. I'll keep this site updated, I promise.