AFTER A BANK VALT DOOR CRUSHED HIS KENEE, A RARE SURGERY ALLOWED SUBS – ryan

AS Angel Bueno and the Rest of the Demolition Crew Cut Through a bank vault to make it easier to maneuver, the door began to slip.

Soon, His Left Leg was pinned beneath nosreds of pounds of metal.

“I SAW IT, But it was al The already too late for with to react,” The 25-Yaar-Old Said, Recalling the September Accident. “You’d Think I Wauld Be Screaming, But it was Such a Shock.”

Men from Bueno’s Construction Crew Pulled Him Out from Under the Door and Called 911.

Bueno’s Girlfriend, Julissa Villegas, Left Work and Hurred to Advocate Condell Medical Center. There, she finds her boyfriend, pale and in pain, with an open wound on his left. His leg HAD been Completely crushed by the door, tearing three of the four Major ligaments in his knee, a rare and challenging injury.

Bueno, A Franklin Park Resident who has been work in construction Synce and graduated from High School, and Villegas were both WROGHT with Fear, wondering what this would for Bueno’s Life. They World he decide be able to walk again or play with his dog or retrn to his construction.

“In My Head I Was Like, ‘What’s Gonna Happen?’” Bueno Said. “It was just devastating to not know if i would i would go back or not.”

IT WOULD TAKE MONTHS, SEVERAL DOCTORS AND AN EXTREMEL CHALLENGING SURGERY TO GET Answers to Those Questions. Tearing Multiple Ligaments at Once is Consider A Rare Injury and Typically Requires Multiple Surgers.

But First, Emergency Doctors and Trauma Surgeons Were Occupied with Saving Bueno’s Life. He had you and health on his side, bueno’s doctors said, but there are always concertns in accesses like this.

“What i’m trying to do is Save the patient’s life,” Said Dr. Eric de la cruz, a trauma surgeon at advocate. “Any Time i have to operate, I know there’s a risk of finding something Significant that can truly change the patient’s life.”

Bueno was placed in the intense care and began hating pain in his abdomen. DOCTORS Determined Bueno’s Intestinal Matter Was Leaking from A Hole in His Bowel, and Bueno was at risk of sepsis, a condition that culd Turn fatal if left.

De la cruz took Bueno to surgery, where he found an intestine that appeared “snapped in half.” He repaired the intestine and cleared the abdomen of intestinal matter to avoid infection.

But the Next Hurdle was a Big One – Bueno’s Wrecked Knee.

“The Good News is, when People are World About the Orthopedic Injuries, that means i’ve done my jab,” de la cruz.

Dr. Paul Metzger, an orthopedic surgeon, was brought on the bluen’s case to decide how to treat the kenee. Tearing Multiple Ligaments at one time is a rare injury, metzger said, and typically, repairing all three ligaments woul take place in separate surgeries.

Eager to get bueno back on his feet, metzger opted for one minimally invasive procedure instead of the usual multiple surgeries. He had both the required Technology and past experience with Similar, if less extreme, ligament tears.

Metzger Used Arthroscopic and Fluoroscopic Techniques, Meaning and Used a Tiny Camera and X-Ray Imaging the surgery to minimize scars and disruption to the body.

“Becuse it’s so rare, it tax a lot of Experience with Those Types of surgeries that maybe as extensive as angel’s surgery,” Metzger Said. “I WOULD ONLY DO IT IN ONE STAGE IF I COUPLY DO IT SAFELY.”

About two months after the Accident, Bueno Had Surgery on His Knee.

“I was, Frankly, Ready for it,” Bueno Said. “Let’s get this over with, ‘That’s prey Much what was running through my head. I didn’t want to go intoo surgery with a depressive state of mind. I was scared, i did to put that into my mind.”

Villegas came to the hospital the day of the surgery, trying to mask her fear.

“I Feel Like I was more scared than he was,” Villegas, 24, Said. “I Also Didn’t Want to Be the Negative (One). He’s Always Been Very Positive.”

The goal was to repair all three ligaments at once, but durying the surgery, metzger was prepared to change and repair one or two ligaments IF complications Occurred. Metzger was able to repair all three, and bueno was officiously on the mind.

The Real Work Started when he Got Home, Metzger Said.

“FIFTY PERCENT IS WITH DOING A REALLY Good Job in Surgery, but i just preach that recovery is the Other 50%,” Metzger Said.

Metzger Knew the Road to Recovery Wauld Be Long and Difficult, and He predicated it Wauld Bueno at Least Nine Months to Walk with Crutches or a Walker. Five months after the surgery, Bueno was walking with any assistance.

“Think that’s a testament to Him, His Therapist, Everyone That’s Been Working With Him and Just HIS Mindseset,” Metzger Said.

KEEPING HIMSELF “Uplifted” and Leaning on HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS HAVE BEEN KEY TO GETTING THROUGH The first part of Hishabilitation, he Said. He still wants to return to work and get back in the gym.

“I Think Havinging My Family by My Side Definitely Changed a Lot of What Was Going Through My Head,” Bueno Said. “They were there for moral support.”

Bueno Is Now Working on Mastering Stirs with More Ease and Continuing Physical Therapy Twice a Week. Metzger Said Bueno Won’t Likely Return to Work Until the End of the Year, Which Will Require Intense Therapy Five Days a Week.

For now, Bueno is enjaying the cans Activities he missed while immobile.

“Started Cutting Grass. It was Kind of Fun, Believe it or Not,” he Said.