Yesterday Reuben went to hospital for his first rod lengthening operation on the rods in his spine, it was a month early but he had grown quite a lot and needed it done a little earlier. Everything went really well, we were there at 7am for the x-rays and consenting, in theatre at 9am, he was back on the ward at 11am and recovered so quickly with a little sleep and lunch he was walking about and they let him go home at 1pm :) he's sore and still on pain relief at the moment, he didn't have a good night's sleep but we're pretty sure he'll be running around as normal soon!
He always looks really tiny in the bed! Watching his favourite Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom while he was coming round from the anaesthetic.
Reuben will need this operation done every 6 months until he is a teenager, then the metal rods will be removed and replaced with a new structure and fixed with bone graft as a spinal fusion.
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