Brayden's Journey: Surgery #10 a success and the AMAZING results!!!

We left for Chicago on Wednesday morning and arrived 5 pm. Brayden did great in the 8 hour car ride and watched movies and took a nap. This is the first surgery, Geoffrey and I both are going to be with Brayden

And were off!

Brayden watching movies in the long car ride

After we arrived at Ronald Mcdonald house, he wanted to play in the toy room

Playing with toys!

Surgery day and woke up a happy boy! Surgery at 11 am and had to be at hospital at 9:30 am

Brayden and Grandpa and Grandma Vauble before leaving for the hospital

Funny faces before surgery

Playing with toys before surgery

Surgery lasted for 2 hours and Dr. Bauer said everything went as good as he thought it would. He said we had enough good skin to stretch the way he wanted it to. He got all the nevus off under his belly button and cleaned everything else up. He did say we wouldn't need anymore expanders, which is AMAZING news to hear! Most likely he will just need a surgery later on to clean things up and to remove some of the satellite spots he has that are fairly large someday. Brayden is suppose to take it easy for the next 3 weeks while he heals up. We pray he heals up perfectly unlike last round. We are changing his 3 drainage tubes every 4 hours now and doing dressing changes once a day. I am amazed how he is already up and walking today and for the most part back to his happy self again. He did ask me today, Mommy no more bubbles and no more doctors. I told him no and he smiled. This little brave boy has been through so much these past 3 years and we are beyond happy we are at the end of the road for his nevus journey and that we started when he was so young. Very thankful for Dr. Bauer and his amazing nurses that has helped him along the way.

Had to have pizza after surgery