Ankle Fusion Complete

We were told that the surgery went exactly as planned. My mother and I waited in his assigned hospital room. When they wheeled him in, he was smiling and cracking the usual inappropriate jokes: "I feel like an Iraqi!" he said.

There's two things everyone should get after receiving general anesthesia: lip balm and cough drops. He definitely needed both. We left him in a good mood, very lucid, describing the pain in his ankle as no more than a 1 out of 10. My husband and I are going to pick him up tomorrow morning after the physical therapy people clear him to leave.