Keisha's Surgery

So 1 week ago Keisha had to have surgery on her right rear ACL. She tore it on a jog home while we were on a walk last week.

It's tough being 13...

Theresa and I didn't know how seriously she was injured so we didn't do anything about it at first. It appeared that she just was favoring the leg and that she wanted to keep her weight off of it. She has done this in the past when one of her legs hurt her because of arthritis. But after about 3 days of her favoring this leg Theresa and I decided we needed to take her to the vet. The vet looked at her and said "Looks like a torn ACL to me". We needed x-rays to be sure. The x-rays showed that she had arthritis and a torn ACL. So last Thursday she had ACL surgery...the doctor says she will run marathon's again....kidding. She also had a skin tumor removed that the doctor said wasn't likely cancerous....it was...so I thank God that we were able to get her in to get that removed.

It has been very trying for Theresa to watch her baby go through this and it has been hard on me too. I want to help out but I don't know how much I should do for her. I don't want to give Keisha too much help for fear that I will lengthen her recovery, but I don't want her to get injured again either. It's tough when she can't tell us what she wants or needs.

So the recovery is supposed to take 10 weeks. We are 1 week into this and she is starting to use the leg for balance and to put some weight on it. Stitches come out on Tuesday--if they last that long.