Karma Sucks
So I am an evil person. I have a tendency to find humor in the misfortune of others. Schadenfreude. It will always come back.
When I first started working at my current place of employment, we were at a different location. We could look out our loading dock door and see the parking lot of the establishment next door. We’d have those times in the day were we would stand at the counter and watch the world outside.
Now, my partner and I had a tendency to have the humor of a prepubescent boy. We would tell fart jokes and such. Man, a good sexual innuendo would cause hours of amusement. Not that I’m always proud of this, but it’s how we are wired. And again, this was years ago, and maybe I’ve matured slightly…maybe.
To the point, next door, there was a woman who had a bone deformity in her arm. It actually curved about halfway between the elbo and the wrist. We…uh, by we I mean I…came up with a not to attractive nick name for her…”Ol reach around”.
So, please enjoy the karmatic smack down that is the x-ray of my son’s leg. We call it his lucky foot. You can see a pic if you follow the link to my Flickr page. We go to a specialist tomorrow to see what we need to do to start the straightening process. Lesson learned, great Karma…you bitch.
December 14th, 2007 at 5:38 pm
Ol’ Reach Around, eh? Well, if it was funny when you said it, isn’t that all that really matters?
December 15th, 2007 at 12:33 am
[...] went to the pediatric orthopedist. He was very optimistic about Tony’s leg. He diagnosed it as “Posteromedial Bowing of the Tibia”…um yeah. It is believed [...]
September 9th, 2008 at 9:16 am
[...] Shoes?…who needs shoes… by Bryan Comer Yesterday was hard. We had been anticipating Tony’s return visit to the pediatric orthopedists. He has begun pulling up and scoots around pretty fast. This was a milestone of sorts for the next step regarding his leg/foot. [...]
January 25th, 2010 at 1:58 am
I felt like I was in a time warp and reading about my son who also had posteromedial bowing of the tibia. He is about to turn 23 years in a few weeks. We were told pretty much the same as you and your wife about treatment options. My soon had his 1st surgery at age 4 1/2 (Ilizrov device applied), curvature returned around age 8, he had an osteotomy. Age 10 he had a screw put in the “bad” ankle to slow growth of the tibia and let the fibula cutinue to grow. At age 14 surgery to remove screw in “bad” leg because it was bent and to destroy the growth plate in the good leg. I left out about 4-5 other surgeries on the leg and foot and the constant pain my son was in from arthritis. The leg lenght difference at age 20 was around 3cm and my son was given several procedure options, basically repeating a compination of the above or amputating his leg below the knee. My son chose to amputate, he said that if he was more than likely going to have to have it removed by the time he was 35-40 that he should do it now while he is young and become adapted to it. He also said that the thought of having multiple more surgeries and the continued pain was not an option for him. He is now a very happy painfree yooung adult, soon to graduate from college and working full time. He has no regrets. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. My only advice would be not to get in any rush to start the surgeries they too often seem to turn into multiples.