top_kat
Well-Known Member
my 13 year old has suffered for years with various leg pain issues, he was diagnosed as having Osgood Schlatters disease about 5 years ago, but the leg pain has increased so he now has severs disease too. His physio referred him to a surgeon and he also diagnosed him with Patellar tendonitis and achilles tendonitis too and also bilateral calf constrictures.
So, because of the amount of sport that he plays and because he plays football at a high level, they have referred him for surgery which he is due to have tomorrow.
He is of course feeling nervous, but I have a real fear of anaesthetic - it took me 7+ years to actually book and have my band surgery because of my own personal fears. And it has hit me in the past 24+ hours that my son, my absolute WHOLE life is going under tomorrow.
He is worried and I am trying my best to keep positive and lighthearted, but its so incredibly hard when I have such a fear of it myself, I don't let him see my being worried about him, but even without that fear I would be anyway, as any parent would.
He is having surgery on both legs, to deal with the bilateral calf constrictures which they hope in turn will lengthen the tendons in his legs to help ease the other issues that he is having, especially that he is now starting to have back and hip pain too. If anyone has had or knows anyone that has had this type of surgery, I'd be interested to know how it has gone and if it has helped . . .we know there is no guarantee that it will help, or that it will do anything, and I just hope that it does, seeing him in daily pain is awful.
But, ugh! I wish I didn't have this fear of anaesthetic - I was the same before my surgery with that fear that I wouldn't make it through, having that same feeling about my son is a million times worse
So, because of the amount of sport that he plays and because he plays football at a high level, they have referred him for surgery which he is due to have tomorrow.
He is of course feeling nervous, but I have a real fear of anaesthetic - it took me 7+ years to actually book and have my band surgery because of my own personal fears. And it has hit me in the past 24+ hours that my son, my absolute WHOLE life is going under tomorrow.
He is worried and I am trying my best to keep positive and lighthearted, but its so incredibly hard when I have such a fear of it myself, I don't let him see my being worried about him, but even without that fear I would be anyway, as any parent would.
He is having surgery on both legs, to deal with the bilateral calf constrictures which they hope in turn will lengthen the tendons in his legs to help ease the other issues that he is having, especially that he is now starting to have back and hip pain too. If anyone has had or knows anyone that has had this type of surgery, I'd be interested to know how it has gone and if it has helped . . .we know there is no guarantee that it will help, or that it will do anything, and I just hope that it does, seeing him in daily pain is awful.
But, ugh! I wish I didn't have this fear of anaesthetic - I was the same before my surgery with that fear that I wouldn't make it through, having that same feeling about my son is a million times worse