After the last x-rays (four weeks ago) Dr. Nelson reached out to let us know that Amaya would possibly need a bone graft and/or exchanging of her rod (using the same incisions, they would remove her lengthening rod and put in a nonmagnetic nail a millimeter or two bigger which would help stimulate bone growth).
We realized he would be in Southern California for a two week window the last week of September and first week of October and that we would be in the area for one of those weeks. We reached out to see if it would be a good idea to go see him. Dr. Nelson said that if she was still in discomfort or pain that it would be smart to go ahead and schedule the rod exchange. He and his surgery scheduler have been working hard for the past two weeks to try to get Amaya on the schedule.
She's been having discomfort and pain in both her knee and leg. Dr. Nelson had to borrow/steal some operating time from another surgeon. The other surgeon agreed to let him switch if she could observe the surgery since she's never done it. Dr Nelson and his surgery scheduler, Tammie, worked hard to get Amaya seen and we are grateful to both of them for their hard work and dedication. Even though the timing of us being in Southern California didn't match with available surgery dates, they fit her into the schedule.
Even though we weren’t looking forward to an extra surgery (this will be surgery number nine) we are grateful that this will help with healing Amaya's bone and lessen her pain.
At the end of August Dr. Nelson said that if Amaya had an "unexpected amount of healing" we would cancel the surgery. After seeing the x-rays she got this week he said that we'll continue with the surgery as planned.
Here are her newest x-rays, taken on Sept. 13 (four weeks since the last ones).
