Third surgery

As I'm sitting here in C's room with everything semi quiet, I cant help but reflect on how good and great our God is! So many things could have gone differently today and yet surgery went as smooth as possible. Again the Doc is happy with the graft and he got eveything done on his agenda. C has a 4 piece graft from one ear down his cheek, across his chin up to the other ear. There are 2 bigger pieces and 2 small ones. There are no dressings on these grafts because the nurses and Doc need to be able to see if they are taking an dif theres any blood pooling underneath. If there is then they need to be able to nick the graft and roll out the blood to make certain the skin adheres to his face. Sorry if this grosses anyone out but as I mentioned before I dont hold anything back! Doc was also able to do C's arms and his thumb. All in all very pleased with today! Thank you God for being there every step of the way! Thank you also to all who were praying!

Marv struggled a little when we got to the recovery room. It hit me a little to and made me a tad bit queesy, but it passed quickly. I then realized that after they wash him down tom morn it'll look tons better. I got to see C's fingers today after surgery, they didnt bandage them up so the nurses had to do that when he was in his room. They look great as well...besides having to do some therapy Doc says he'll regain use of them completely! Another blessing!

C wont have any surgeries for a few weeks. His donor sites now need to heal, so that Doc can harvest more skin later. The tops of C's legs and his belly are the only things left to graft. They are covered with cadaver skin for the time being and should heal some more till his donor parts have healed. Hopefully one or two more surgeries and we shall be done.

We love having visitors at the hospital! However if you have any sort of sickness, or have been around anyone thats been sick for a period of time, we ask that you get well and come see us at another time. With C having open grafts we cannot have anyone at the hospital thats sick or could be carrying sickness. We also regret to say that we wont be allowing visitors in C's room either. While you may think thats extremely rude of us, please realize that we are just looking out for whats best for C right now. If that offends you then it will just have too.

Gonna try and catch up on my zzz's.
Amy