Surgery Day!

Steve had surgery on his thigh today. We were so thrilled for this day to come. Steve has something called Blood Vessel Tumors in his thigh. He found these when he was around 12, after noticing that his leg would swell after playing basketball and doing other strenuous activites. Well, throughout the years he has had about 4 or 5 surgeries on his leg. The tumors are not cancerous, so thats a good thing. They are innertwined with his muscle, so much that they can not remove the actual tumors. Instead they go into his leg with a very, very long needle and inject alcohol into his veins to close them off. Making it so they don't swell up and cause pain anymore...well at least for 6 months to a year. Yep, in order to stay comfortable and out of pain he will need to continue to have this procedure done at least every 6 months to a year for the rest of his life. Luckily he is used to it, so he is ok with this fact. I on the other hand get nervous. Although it is not a serious procedure being done, the fact that he is put under general anesthesia makes me very nervous. Im so glad that it's over with for a little while now. Here are a few picture after his surgery. He has been a good sport to let me put them on here.


Steve Sleeping after being all drugged up


This is the leg he had done. It looks pretty normal in the picture but it actually was pretty swollena nd blue from the stuff they
put on his leg before the surgery. Im guessing to clean it


This is me being sad for my lover butt in pain


Ok, we just thought this was funny, before the surgery they said they were going to mark his feet. we were thinkin " um... its his leg not his feet that are being done." I guess the find his pulse and mark where it is so they can find it after. We just thought it was funny.