Josiah had a comfortable night overall, but his pain level is still higher - he is using his pain button a lot. His little backside looks like a railroad docking station....I'll have to ask someone how many stitches.
The Orthopaedic doc says they will see him in a week after we go home to take a look at the skin on his heel. If it is infected, it will have to be removed. If not, they will leave it alone, trusting the body to fix the skin itself. They also want to get him up with a walker today...not sure how he will tolerate that with the increased pain in his bottom.
Maybe he will be allowed to eat today. The Trauma doc said 24 hrs. possibly.
Mom didn't sleep too good; noisy interruptions at 11, 12:30, 4:30, 6:00, 6:10, 6:30, 7:00 and 7:40!!!
Continue to pray about no infection, the skin on his heel to heal itself so we won't need skin grafting or another procedure (removing dead skin) in a week. If we go home tomorrow (Trauma doc is still saying this), we will be back to Columbus in a week for the Ortho and 2 weeks to have the stitches out...so unfortunately this won't be our last visit.
I have seen the buttocks wound now several times. It doesn't look to me like he will need plastic surgery. His contour looks pretty good. Maybe a little smaller on that side, but not so awful bad. We'll see...at any rate, that problem is down the road to face if necessary.
My parents are coming to visit today.
My verse for today..."love covers a multitude of sins." :)
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