Lydia's surgery

Lydia's surgery was yesterday.  It went well.  She had a plate and screws put in and the surgeon believes the finger will be mostly corrected after she heals.

She is, obviously, bandaged and splinted.  They used a nerve block and it didn't wear off for more than 12 hours, so yesterday was weird.  She said it felt like she had a block of wood attached to her left shoulder :-).

Now she can feel her arm and the pain is here, though she is on good (read, powerful) pain meds.

So all is well in our household, though we are definitely out of routine.  Naomi and I will need to run things and take care of Lydia, and Lydia usually is the helper, not the helped.

Rose has been super cranky, I think partially out of indignation that Lydia isn't picking her up.

Lydia will go back to the surgeon on Friday and the splint will be removed.  We then need to talk about physical therapy.

So all this is good but a tad strenuous. But good.