Let the long process of healing begin

Luckily Brayden has been feeling better each day and yesterday he even wanted to walk for the first time, he's still a little off balance but he was determined to play with his trains at his train table.  He couldn't  stand for long and then he is ready to lay on his couch again.  He's suppose to be taking it easy for a few weeks, so I am fine with him laying down most of the day so he can fully recover.

Brayden lower back however, isn't healing the way we wanted it to.  Part of the skin is now peeling.  When we did a dressing change the other night, I couldn't even look at it right away, it was so painful for me to see and my eyes just filled up with tears.  Just so hard seeing it and knowing we had a great round of fills with these expanders and surgery was a success and now, we have the stress of healing. Not something we wanted for Brayden that's for sure. 

We sent pictures to Dr. Bauer and this is what he said, "Well this is certainly not what we would like to see, but does show the effects of the thinning of the flap.  The most critical part of saving as much skin as possible is keeping the flaps moist, covered and protected.  Aquaphor, xeroform, and the ace wrap and be patient."

So that is what were doing now, we are keeping that area clean and doing a dressing change once a day.  On a good note, Brayden is laughing, talking and eating like normal.  Which is great to see, just wish we could fast forward this time and he was healed.

Here's a picture of his back, it's not pretty to look at that's for sure