A little bump in the road 11/9/21

So we have hit a little bump in the road to recovery. We have been keeping an eye on 2 spots on her incision. One of them has been draining for a little over a week now but it hasn't ever really looked like pus and the other just didn't look like it was healing right.  We have been keeping her surgeon in the loop on everything and up until yesterday we thought everything was going ok. But yesterday part of her incision looked like it was separating. Her surgeon said to keep a close eye on it and if it got any bigger then we were to bring her in the next day. Well, yep it got bigger. So I sent more pictures to her surgeon this morning and he told us to come in. I had already packed our bags the day before just in case. We loaded up and headed to Salt Lake City. We arrived about 1:30 this afternoon and he looked it over and thought he could stitch it back together in his surgical suite there in the office. They put some topical numbing cream on her to hopefully help when they had to put the needle in for the local anesthesia. I got to go back with them to help keep her calm and still.  

She did feel the needle in some areas but she was so strong and brave about it. Now here's where things took a little more of a turn. Once he got her all cleaned up and assessed further the first side was bigger than he originally thought so he got that stitched back together with about 10 stitches. He moved to the other side, cleaned it out and immediately said "oh I don't like this at all"...."I'm not sure I will be able to get this closed, now is the time to say a few prayers".  So here I am thinking that we will be heading to Orem for her to go into surgery. He could see a little of her skull but we are very lucky that it wasn't the bone that they grafted  during surgery. If it had been the bone graft it would have been very bad since that "dead" bone wouldn't do well with being exposed and more prone for infection. Luckily after 5 stitches for this tiny maybe 1/8- 1/4 of an inch  hole he was able to get it closed. She still isn't out of the woods yet since this was all most likely caused by her skin being very thin because it got stretched from moving her forehead forward so much. We are just hoping and praying these stitches hold and there's no infection. He did start her on antibiotics just to be on the safe side. If it opens up again she will most likely be going back into surgery for a skin graft since that will be the only way to get it to close completely. Doing this would be a very long recovery. So fingers crossed we don't have to go there. 

She did so great throughout the whole procedure, I mean are we really surprised??!! The girl is a badass!! 

On a good note you wouldn't know she's going through all of this because she is just her happy, funny, normal amazing self. 

We are back home and hoping everything goes smooth the rest of the week and she can hopefully go back to school on Monday, with a lot of restrictions of course. The poor girl misses her friends so much!! 

We are just going to keep on trucking along and try to get this sweet girl 100%. Thanks for all of the prayers and happy thoughts. 

HEADS UP ....I have added the photos of her separated incision and when she was all stitched back up so if you don't like that kind stuff don't scroll past here. 😉