Good News for Tony's Recovery

Tony was cleared to start back at work on Monday, 9/24/09. His primary care doctor wrote a letter illustrating his progress. He said that his ankle and facial trauma are healing nicely. I love the last line of the letter, "At this point full recovery is anticipated and no long tern medications are needed other than prn NSAID". So the full week of work wiped Tony out of course but he's doing good.

It's funny because he worked hard when he was home too but it definitely didn't include the walking and the intensity of course. And in a way, I've been spoiled because I could leave Max to "work with dad in the garage" while I took Ryan to go grocery shopping or whatever. Now I'm getting used to the full on mom-of-two status again.

So Tony continues physical therapy twice a week but that will be wrapping up sometime soon. He has the onset of arthritis in his ankle but he just takes glucosamine to combat that as much as possible. The orthopedic surgeon says there's nothing to do for it. He may need it fused at some point if he loses mobility in it, but only time will tell.

Next on the horizon: His oral surgery is scheduled for 12/29/09 and they will bring his upper jaw out to correct his bite. They will also give him implants to replace his two missing teeth. They may also pull the broken teeth on either side and do two more implants or just fix them. The oral surgeon, orthodontist and dentist will make a group decision about that at the end of the month. He'll have braces about another 6 months or so and then finished! We are praying that the Federal Aviation Administration doesn't feel that with his injuries he needs to fail his aviation physical and lose his license.