Bright and early on July 19th, Brayden will be going in for surgery. It should only last a few hours and if everything is good, back to the hotel we will go. We are lucky that my parents live in Iowa and they will drive to Chicago to be with us, that saves money on renting a car. Also for this stay my dad cashed in some of his points with his timeshare, so we can stay at a hotel. So that helps us out alot as well.
In the mean time Brayden needs to stay healthy, that way his surgery doesn't get postponed. So that means no playing with his friends for the next month. I also want to keep him out of the swimming pool, just in case he would get some kind of infection. Better safe then sorry!
When Brayden goes for surgery, they will be putting in 2 tissue expanders on his flanks. One on each side and over the 12 weeks that he has his tissue expanders in, we will fill each expander with saline. Each week the expanders will get bigger and bigger and stretching his "good, normal" skin. Then after the 12 weeks which is October 11th, back to Chicago Brayden & daddy go to get the expanders removed and Dr. Bauer will stretch the good skin down and cut out the nevus skin and stitch the skin and let it heal for 4 months. Then we repeat all over again 2 more times. This is a work in progress, so I can't wait to get it started next month. We have a long road ahead of us, but with the amazing talent that Dr. Bauer has, I am trusting him with Brayden and I know he will be fine.
As always please continue to pray for Brayden and if you haven't bought a cookbook yet, please let me know. You can also buy them from our blog. We really appreciate all the support we have been getting, it's just amazing how people come together in time of need.
Some of you that hasn't seen Brayden in person, doesn't know what his nevus looks like. Since surgery is around the corner, here are some before pictures.
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| Brayden will get 2 tissue expanders by his flanks, one on each side |
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