Isaac made his grand exit from CMH about 48 hours after we arrived. That in and of itself is amazing for what he had done. He got to enjoy the 4th of July here with our families. We had a great time with everyone. We sufficiently tuckered him out and he slept in on Sunday until 9am. Which, if you know our boys, anything after 6:30am is a blessing!
We are now a few days back into our 'normal' routine. Isaac is starting to get around some on his own both in his wheelchair and on the floor. He is now just on Ibuprofen only for pain management. He took a dose last night before bed, and then refused it all day long (and seemed to do alright). We did give him some tonight, as we needed to take his bandages off and redress the incisions after a bath.
He has two incisions that essentially go the length of his back, but there is about a 2 inch space in between the two incisions in the middle of his back, where the skin is intact.
Isaac is now at the age where he is asking a lot of questions about "how did those owies get there?" and so on. Those are hard discussions to have, yet we're being as candid and matter of fact as we can be, and still be age appropriate for him.
We are looking forward to putting this surgery behind us, and getting ready to have fun the rest of the summer before kindergarten starts! Yikes!
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