March 07, 2012

Hip Surgery for Ambrose

Please keep Ambrose in your prayers, he will be having surgery on his hip this Thursday, March 8. The procedure is going to correct Ambrose's displaced hip once and for all. The pelvic side of the hip joint has not formed properly (it is flat instead of concave), so the doctor is going to graft a wedge of bone into the pelvis above the joint, sculpting it into the proper "socket" shape. The image below shows the bone graft coming from the top of the pelvis, but Ambrose will be receiving donor bone instead. The surgery will require general anesthesia, an overnight stay, as well as a body cast for 8 to 12 weeks. We will update after he comes out of surgery.

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