Wow 4 months have already gone by!! It's crazy to think it all changed that long ago!! Well just at the 4 month mark, I was cuddling with Lucas one day and noticed that the spot on his incision scar that took the longest to heal, had kinda skinned off. This started to worry me as is something going on or did he just bump his head on something?? This very active 15 month old little boy, was all over the place that day and I couldn't even think of where or when he may have bumped his head!!
Well I thought about it for a while and finally after everyone but me was in bed, I decided I would e-mail his surgeon with my concerns and then take a picture in the morning.
I got a response the very next morning, saying send the pictures when able and that there shouldn't be anything with the incision line and his surgery at this point, like I was thinking. So after like 20 attempts I got 2 pictures that I was able to send along, and Alan looked at them and again just told me what I had thought all along.
So here I am thinking, why did you just do that, you knew that from being a nurse, but again like I have told myself several times in the last little while, I'm a mother first, and am allowed to be irrational at times, and let my imagination free!!
Well now another few days later and I look at this new spot and can see that it is healing very well, and keep thinking to myself that this should have been the way I was thinking all along!! But Lucas is fine no infection and it is definitely not stopping him, especially when he knocks over a box so he can climb onto it and then get up on my coffee table!! He is such a smart little mischievous boy!!! So when that little scab falls off I will be so happy.
In April we will again see opthamology as Lucas had a little bit of a lazy eye prior to surgery, but well baby check this week showed that, they didn't see any signs of that so I'm really happy about that!!
So until next time!!
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Deer season, Christmas, New Years, and more!
Again I'm running behind in my posting!! Babies holidays and work are all running together now and I'm not sure if I'm up or down some days!
But this past November, I returend to Manitoulin Island (HOME) for white tail deer season. My family and friends were amazed at how well his had healed from his surgery, being only about 6 weeks post-op at that time. His hair had started to really grow and started to cover the suture line so you couldn't see it. They did wonderfully, and Lucas was standing at that time, but wouldn't take a step.
The next week, however, when we got home he started to walk! He was standing next to my chair and let go and took about 3 steps towards the centre of the room. After that it was about a week befor he built up enough courage to walk out of the living room and venture to his bedroom on his feet.
Soon after that we put up our christmas tree and with the 2 of them, it was deffinately work to keep them away from it!! The presents were a different story! As we placed the wrapped presents under the tree thier curiosity flourished and the picking at the corners of the paper began!! By Christmas morning when we pulled the gifts out from under the tree, the corners and edges of the boxes had little tears and pick marks on them!! Lucas didn't seem as interested in pulling the paper off of his presents as Nicholas was, because as soon as he could see what it was he was trying to play with it! Because I was working Night shift we opened our presents as soon as I got home from work and Chris and the boys went to his dads for the afternoon. I then joined them about 330pm for supper and some more presents.
We did Christmas with my sister and her family and my dad on New Years day, and spent New Years eve at a fund raising dance for the town of Mindemoya, for new play ground equipment and such. It was fun to be had by all! As I have said to a bunch on Facebook, I'm glad 2011 is over and am looking forward to a great 2012, we had too much heart ach and a year of I don't knows with Lucas' diagnosis of Metopic Craniosynostosis. Then his surgery and my mom's death with-in a week of each other!! Not to count the death of some good family friends!!
So to one and all, Happy New Year and all the best in 2012!!
But this past November, I returend to Manitoulin Island (HOME) for white tail deer season. My family and friends were amazed at how well his had healed from his surgery, being only about 6 weeks post-op at that time. His hair had started to really grow and started to cover the suture line so you couldn't see it. They did wonderfully, and Lucas was standing at that time, but wouldn't take a step.
The next week, however, when we got home he started to walk! He was standing next to my chair and let go and took about 3 steps towards the centre of the room. After that it was about a week befor he built up enough courage to walk out of the living room and venture to his bedroom on his feet.
Soon after that we put up our christmas tree and with the 2 of them, it was deffinately work to keep them away from it!! The presents were a different story! As we placed the wrapped presents under the tree thier curiosity flourished and the picking at the corners of the paper began!! By Christmas morning when we pulled the gifts out from under the tree, the corners and edges of the boxes had little tears and pick marks on them!! Lucas didn't seem as interested in pulling the paper off of his presents as Nicholas was, because as soon as he could see what it was he was trying to play with it! Because I was working Night shift we opened our presents as soon as I got home from work and Chris and the boys went to his dads for the afternoon. I then joined them about 330pm for supper and some more presents.
We did Christmas with my sister and her family and my dad on New Years day, and spent New Years eve at a fund raising dance for the town of Mindemoya, for new play ground equipment and such. It was fun to be had by all! As I have said to a bunch on Facebook, I'm glad 2011 is over and am looking forward to a great 2012, we had too much heart ach and a year of I don't knows with Lucas' diagnosis of Metopic Craniosynostosis. Then his surgery and my mom's death with-in a week of each other!! Not to count the death of some good family friends!!
So to one and all, Happy New Year and all the best in 2012!!
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