They finally took off the dressings and the headband this morning! :) Of course, it's really, really swollen (you can tell even his eye is swollen). From what I've been told, the middle third (from top to bottom) is where they worked, and from his cheek all the way back to his spine. I'm not sure he will look too different from the front.
They'll be covering it up with gauze soon, so I thought I'd snap a picture. They said we get to move to "their floor" (ENT has their own unit). It's a slight step down from the ICU. We can have more visitors over there, even though our visitors went home yesterday). There's a few other differences. He should be able to get up and out of bed over there. After 4 days of being in bed, that oughta feel good. Micah keeps signing 'up, up' so it'll be nice to get him out of bed.
I hadn't thought about it until the middle of the night, but they've been so concerned about this damaged blood vessel that they took him off his feedings and put him on IV fluids in case they need to ship him to the OR. Yikes! That hadn't crossed my mind, nor had I heard anything about it. Hopefully they'll let him eat again soon.... or else... dun dun dun... We'll have one cranky kid. But for now he's resting-ish, just wishing that people would leave him alone. They had to draw blood at 4am... if looks could kill....
Still no word on when they'll let us out of here. Either way, we have to stay til Thursday to get the stitches out.
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