Removing the gauze

When we get the time to figure out how to put the video on my blog. We will do that. For now I just have the pre and post pictures. The pictures are still pretty bloody and if your not prepared to see them, might make you a bit queezy.  If your letting your own 8 year old or younger kids see this because they are friends with Hyrum, I would advise looking at them first, and then prepare your kids that there is blood, they are fresh unwrapped wounds and we are not allowed to wash him until we go to the doctors on Monday.  It was unnerving for Hyrum to see the pictures and he could only get to the point in the video where he gets upset because the gauze is stuck together.  When I post it you will know the point.  He refused to watch it again and he was living the video.

Hyrum was very anxious to get it all off. So as soon as breakfast was over we "got it done." So for a before the unveiling picture. We have this one. 

You can see why he would be done with it. It was getting into his eyes.

So after breakfast, we decided the best place to remove the wrap was at the table. Afterwards he let me take a couple of pictures. 

He was slouching in the above picture so I asked him to sit up more and got the below picture.  Looks a touch unsure and even painful.

At first he refused to let me take the next pictures. After talking to him though, he finally let me take some pictures of each side of him. He still wanted to see them, I think it helped to see them in picture, not video.

 So below is his left ear. They tucked his ear back so they could use the skin for the other side. They also took a graft (under the bloody bandage) for his ear canal.

A few hours later. We took this picture below. You will notice that his ear is not tucked to his head like we thought. You can see the stitches better also.

The picture below is his right "new" ear. As he said "my ear hasn't hatched yet". So at least he hasn't lost his humor. It is still leaking just a little so we have a piece of gauze tucked into his shirt to help catch the fluid.  They had drains around his ear in his head, to help pull the fluid, after surgery, they pull those drains, and use gauze to catch all the fluids.

 

I tried to get him to nap, but now that he knows what was under all that gauze, he had a hard time laying down.  Just the thought of laying on "wounds" was bad enough, now he knows exactly what he's laying on and couldn't do it.

We have taken him off the hard drugs and he is now on plain Tylenol. His peeing is getting better, but he still demand that I "sing" to him.  I have this nasty habit of taking songs and changing their meanings.  The "Let it go" song will always be our "pee song" now!  He perked up a little bit before dinner when he went to play with our Host's kids, but by dinner he was done and ready to veg again.

Tomorrow we are hoping to head to LA, where we will be for the next 3 doctors appointments. He has one on Monday, then the following Monday or Tuesday of each week, then back up on Thursday October 15 to San Jose until we come home Oct 20-21 depending on how things go with each of his appointments.