Again consider yourself warned-photos are graphic
Teele went to the hand surgeon yesterday for a check up. I asked him if he was scared/nervous and he looked at me and said, “No why?” I’m a baby and would have been scared of it hurting! But Teele has been a real trooper through all of this. They gave him a block at Mountain Vista and the surgeon at St. Lukes didn’t have faith in the one he already had so he gave him a second one, “Just in case”. That was good for Teele because he was in very little pain until Monday.
The MA removed the bandage and I immediately didn’t like what I saw but I kept my mouth shut. (That can be a hard thing for me to do) Then the Dr. walked in and said, “OH NO! That’s not what I wanted to see! It’s not as good as I had hoped but I’ve seen them blacker.” He gave Teele’s finger a really HARD squeeze to see if there was any puss and that’s the first time I saw Teele want to cry. Since the Dr.’s “squeeze” he has been in a lot of pain. I felt so bad for him.
So here are the pictures of the skin graft.
You can see the finger beside it is also cut and that hurt him more than the “bad” finger the first few days.
The skin, as you can see, turned black. Not the healthy pink we were hoping for. The Dr. decided to leave it alone for one more week hoping the grafted skin would serve as a band aid and help in the healing/growth of new skin underneath. As he was leaving the room the Dr. turned and said, “Keep praying” so we are. We are thankful there is no infection because if it becomes infected they will have to amputate. So it was good news-bad news for us.
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