Home Sweet Home

We are home!!!
We had the post-op appt. today with Dr. Roberson. It was great to see him and have him look at Brennan's ear. It was reassuring to have him say that it looked great. Joel and I were a bit concerned about it. It oozes out some gunk at night (sorry for the details) and we weren't sure if that was okay. I have been taping gauze around Brennan's head at night so he can't itch it and Dr. Roberson said that was fine and I can keep doing it. Brennan still can't run or jump around for 2-3 more weeks and shouldn't even go on a swing or merry-go-round. So, I guess it's more games, puzzles, dvd's, books, crafts... We also can't get his ear wet for a minimum of 8 weeks. That makes bath time interesting. I've got to email some families who have been through this before and see what creative things they have done to bathe their kids.
We will be going back up north in 2 weeks for another appt. for Dr. Roberson to remove some of the packing in the ear. We will just be driving up for the appt. and then driving home. I believe we have another appt. 2 weeks after that and then one more 2 weeks later. At around 6 weeks B will have a hearing test to determine the results of the surgery. He will then have another one a couple weeks after that to confirm more results. We are very excited for those tests!
As for maintenance, we have drops we have to put on the packing in his ear 2x a day. That's it until the next appt. Then I believe we will be putting some sort of cream in his ear as well.


Waiting for the doctor... with his monkey of course (B got to pick out a toy in the basket, this time he picked out a horse on a stick :)


"cheese"



Our lil guy and Dr. Roberson!




This was cool!!!... Dr. Roberson had to trim some of the packing in B's ear and Brennan started to cry, so Dr. Roberson said he would show B what he was going to do on his monkey... so cute!




2 Graphic Pictures (showing his ear 5 days post op)....





The skin graft site (on the right) should heal completely in 2 weeks. the gauze stitch was taken out today so the gauze should be coming off on it's own in the next couple days. Then it will look like a scab and heal all on it's own. The hair will come back too... it's amazing!

The ear tape was taken off and the red packing was trimmed. You can kind of see some of the skin graft that was attatched to the new canal. At our next visit the doctor will take out some of the red packing. Isn't it amazing... a new ear canal!!!