Ron was pretty excited for the surgery. He had high hopes that Dr. Hillyard would fix everything. And he did a great job. It was a little rough because he couldn't move at all for what seemed forever. Not sit up at an angle, nothing. The Dr. wanted to try and get the hip to stabilize on it's own to avoid a hip replacement (he is too young for this per the Doc.). I thought Ron was going to go crazy (I know I would). Laying there in bed for weeks. I think it was 6 weeks total. And every 2 weeks he had to ride the Gold Cross ambulance to Murray to see Dr. Hillyard. He had a brace on that leg to keep him from moving the hip. Ron hated that thing.
Here are some pics from the hospital bed, he ended up staying there almost a week, he lost some blood and blood had to be drained from the bleeding caused by the bone removal etc. He also had to be moved from the care center in South Ogden to another facility because he needed a special board to be transferred to for his physical therapy while bed ridden. It took several days to find a place that had this table. He is now in North Ogden at the Deseret Health and Rehab Center.
The Surgery went well, and I asked Dr. Hillyard how much bone was removed, he described it as if it was like removing 150 cubed-sized sugar cubes. (A LOT).
Ron went to the new facility and it felt like starting over again with learning to walk and move again. We had high hopes for his hip. Here are some pics of Ron working with that special table. He would be strapped on the table and the rehab Dr. would flip him around to standing position in order to keep that hip in place.
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