Fisrt Day of Senior Year!

Tuesday, Aug 24 was spent differently for Dylan than any of us thought it would.  He was home recovering from shoulder surgery.  Dr. Langland repaired the tendon that attaches to the rotator cuff (subscapular).  He was injured during a 7 on 7 FB league at Clear Creek on June 13.  He was doing physical therapy, but he only got better to a point. The week before school started he had an MRI.  We were told he needed surgery and that he would miss all of FB season and some (if not all) of basketball season. 
  Things went well according to Dr Langland.  1.5 hr surgery –  didn’t have to do anything with the bicep. They had to hold up several muscles  etc to get down to what they needed to fix. Our good friend, Ruth Brenneman,  was a nurse in the surgery so that was SO helpful to have her there. That  surgery center was very impressive.  Several people from Kalona area, as  well as our church in IC ,work there.

after he got to take the bandage off

In the recovery room, Dylan let  them know he was already in pain... So they gave him various painkillers   They said that the pain block they had given him  prior to surgery (that is supposed to last for 12+ hours  after he comes  to) must have just worked on 2 of the 3 nerves they go for. He said “It  HURTS...” several times. He threw up back there and then 2 more times  throughout the day.  After they gave him the 2nd half of an IV dose of  the absolute LAST thing they could give him for nausea (at 7:30 pm.) he came  around!  Whew.  He was starting to watch the Titans game on the TV –  we knew we were good.  Ok... Not really... We weren’t sure what we were  going to get into in the next few hours.
Got home around 8:30 – he  plopped down in front of the TV and got on his  phone.(I’m sure AJ will  think he is just fine)  In a few minutes  it caught up with him and  he went to bed with some of those high powered drugs (our private nurse,Ruth,  came over (and brought jenna home) and made sure we understood all the orders.   It IS overwhelming.)
He  ate the most he has yet ( at 1:30  a.m.) and took more pain meds.  Dave and I took turns getting up at night to give him painkillers.
I feel SO much better about things – they fixed him all up.   Now God & Dylan (and  Pat)  will have to do the healing.  
The only disappointing thing was that he was never goofy  under the meds.  He was his under control self.  SO... I didn’t find  out any scoop!   :)

   Happy first  day of school.  Oh yea, my student teacher, Amy Goode (who I just met yesterday) ran  my Open House at KE for me Monday night.

Dave  stayed home with Dylan  Tues.  Dylan wanted to go to school on Wednesday.  I stayed at home with him and took him over to the HS to get books and talk to teachers.  Choosing not to listen to me, Dylan went to school all day on Thursday - including FB practice and the team meal.  He slept in until 11:00 and went to school at noon on Friday.  He's catching rides with Christian or Justin since he can't drive.