Living Happily Ever After

Deni had surgery today on both her knees. She's been having pain when running for quite some time. After trying everything she could, she finally ran out of options and her Dr said he could scope her knees to see what the problem was. The Dr was going to scope both her knees and fix that he could while he was in there, but if there were big problems in both knees, he would only do one knee.

We got to the surgical center about 2:45pm and they took her back about 4:00pm. At 4:15pm they took her into surgery. Deni was out about an hour later. When they let me come back, Deni was shaking like she was freezing, however she had 4 blankets on her.

The Dr Kimball found a problem with the cartilage behind both her knee caps.

car‧ti‧lage  [kahr-tl-ij,
1. a firm, elastic, flexible type of connective tissue of a translucent whitish or yellowish color; gristle.
2. a part or structure composed of cartilage.

Dr. Kimball said that it wasn't due to any injury, but most likely it was hereditary. However, Dr. Kimball said with him cleaning up the cartilage problems and some exercises he will teach her that she will "live happily ever after."

For the next 2 days, Deni is to stay down with her feet elevated and every 2 hours while she is awake, she is to get up and walk for 5 minutes around the house.

The big problem with hereditary issues is Deni's biological father is dead, as well as her biological grandfather, so we only really know about half of her hereditary issues (from her mom).

We stopped on the way home to get pain pills and asprin. We also stopped in Springville to picke up Ryan from my parent. (Sydney is staying the night with my parents).