Annette's Little World: CMC Surgery

Thursday, December 15, 2016

CMC Surgery

I got my left CMC joint replaced at Otsego Memorial Hospital in Gaylord, Michigan on December 7. Same procedure and place as before. Since it's an 8 hour drive we left Monday morning as I had an 8 am pre-surgery appointment on Tuesday. We met friends for dinner Monday evening at the Snowbelt Brewing Company where we enjoyed pizza and some fabulous porter beer. My appointment on Tuesday was at 8 am which left us the day to kill before surgery on Wednesday. We went hiking at Warner Creek Trail off Michigan 32 in Gaylord. It had snowed the day prior and it was really pretty in the woods. We drove into East Jordan and stopped at Deer Creek Junk for a quick look and then went on to Petosky for lunch at the Parkside Deli. My surgery was Wednesday and we got started about 1:15 pm and I woke up in recovery around 3:15 pm. After I got released I was ravenously hungry (since I hadn't eaten for 20 hours) so Andrew took me to get my prescription for pain reliever and then we picked up Nolan and Lacy from Snips and Snails K9 Daycare (a fabulous place, by the way) and then I went back to the hotel to recover while Andrew went to the Snow Bowl for takeout wienerschnitzel (their specialty). On Thursday I had an morning dr appt. We stopped at the Elk Park in Gaylord and the elk were at the feeder since it was very cold and snowing, and we got to see them up close. We got out of town in the nick of time as they got 15 inches of lake effect snow that day. All is well and Andrew even "bedazzled" my cast for the holidays.