Cute Tyleigh has been THROUGH IT with her knees. After three ACL repairs, two cyclops lesion removals, cortisone shots and lots of physical therapy, we wondered if she was having the same issue with her hardware as Carsyn was. We talked to her orthopedic surgeon and decided to move forward with bilateral knee surgery on July 31 - which means she did both knees at the same time. This girl is tough as nails.
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| All the hardware that came out of both knees! |
It was supposed to be a pretty minimal procedure . . . until it wasn't.
Exactly one month later, when things should have been healed, Tyleigh called us from up in Logan and said that her knee was spitting out stitches and looked a little pussy.
We got in contact with her doctor and physical therapist and they called in an antibiotic as a preventative measure.
The next morning, Tyleigh facetimed us and her knee had swollen up like a cantaloupe and was leaking even more. We had her go to the Emergency Room.
We knew there was infection, but we had NO idea how bad it actually was. She spent 5 hours in the ER - mostly by herself, with an IV full of antibiotics. They had to open her incision up and irrigate it. Then they put in a wound drain so it would heal from the inside out. The ER doc told her she would probably only have it for two days.
4 weeks later, her leg was still infected. She was seeing her doctor in Provo weekly, which meant driving down from Logan once a week. He had to debride the wound and Tyleigh learned how to put the wound drain in by herself because it had to be changed every single day. Two full rounds of antibiotics later and the infection started to look better, but then she had an allergic reaction to the antibiotics and felt absolutely miserable for a full week!
6 weeks later (definitely not only two days), and the hole in her leg is finally closing, the rash is gone, and things are looking up! We are praying this will solve her knee issues once she finally heals and she can start living life to the fullest again!
