Let The River Run

T has had quite a day! First I washed his hair with a shower cap shampoo thingy. It was amazing. The nurse gave me this really cool, thick shower cap, which had been kept warm in a heater, that had product all through the inside lining. I put it on T's head and massaged his head for 2-3 minutes. He really liked that part; afterward I took it off and toweled his hair dry. And it was clean! Amazing product - and believe me, his hair was a good test, like wire from all that yellow surgery stuff!


Next, T decided that he was going to be the marathoner today. Good grief, he walked and walked and walked. He's a rock star with the nurses. However, it did lead to one tiny problem, hence the Carly Simon title. This whole plastic surgery process has been about taking skin from one place and putting it somewhere else. After the section of tissue and skin (plus tumor) was removed from below his eye socket, a flap (skin with blood vessels) was taken from his left arm to fill that in. Then skin was taken from his right thigh to cover the flap wound. Imagine a cheese cutter, the hand-held kind that you pass through the cheese to lift off a thin slice, that's kind of what they did to him. To cover this wound they used something called Tegaderm Film. It's a cross between saran wrap and contact paper. It allows something similar to a blood blister to form underneath, a really big thick blood blister, like 2" x 5"! With all T's walking, this blister started to pool toward the bottom of the film, until this afternoon when he set out to walk yet again... and the big blister burst. Oh well, he needed new slippers anyway. I'm talking a river, right by the nurses station! They cleaned it up and added more film, only to have it happen again. I got him into bed to rest this evening, and thought I should check it and sure enough, the nurse had to add yet some more. He has at least five sections stuck on him and I don't think he's done with it.  Boy, is it going to be fun taking that all off!


Tonight he's tired, as he should be after walking for miles all day. The nurse pulled the IVs (happy, happy, joy, joy!) and tomorrow someone will remove at least one drain, possibly two. Little by little, we're getting there. We are thankful for your encouragement and prayers as we go through this process. Bless you!