Thinking back to the first day, I honestly didn't think it was this bad. I thought we'd go to the hospital they'd gauze him up and give him some pain meds, and send us home.
I wasn't alone in this thought.. as Tommy told me he thought the same thing when he seen it. Little did we know he was having surgery the next morning and we would be staying the next 7 days in a hospital.
The ER doctors didn't even know how bad it was, they said it was to hard to see how deep it was. So if a 'trained' eye doesn't know it was real bad, then we def. had a right not to know either.
We went to the doctor yesterday, and everything is healing really well. However, they did say that this would be a very long process, and possibly lifetime. Every time he goes through growth spurts they said that is a crucial period, because problems may arise. Even if nothing happens anytime soon, when he hits 15 he could have troubles.
He was fitted for compression garments, which are tight gloves that go over his heads, and make his skin even, and helps with scars. We are looking at over a year of wearing these. And he will still have to wear the splints for a while. And eventually we will wean him off of those.
He probably will have to have another surgery, and he will probably have to have his skin grafts shaved down. Although, this is speculation and really we have to wait and see.
This is just scary.. I never thought it would take this long, ever! I never thought that this is going to be something that is he is going to be careful with for the rest of his life.
We go back in two weeks for his compression garments, he is getting blue and yellow, with spiderman and batman on them, as well as his name! Make something exciting out of this ordeal!
Until next time..
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Day by Day..
Every morning we do dressing changes on Gavin...
Friday morning.. lots of screaming, and a nervous mommy...
Saturday morning.. more screaming..
Sunday morning.. little screaming and sleeping baby....
Awww how I liked this morning. It was so much better.
The difference was he was fed, we were fed, he had his medicine, and he was already tired. Tommy cuddled him, and by the second hand he was knocked out. It was so much better. We are both learning together, and it is definitely an adventure.
Both hands are looking so much better, both of which are turning normal skin color, from purple and bright pink. Slowly he is healing. The burn on his stomach was minimal, but is almost completely healed. And the graft site on his thigh, is also almost healed.
We go to the doctor tomorrow 1 1/2 hours away, it should be an event in itself. Then we proceed to lots of occupational therapy appointment, and I am sure there will be more appointments with the trauma (burn) doctors as well.
It sometimes feels like he will never be healed and we will be doing this forever, although I know it will all be over soon enough. This is only a long temporary thing. It still has not ruined my little guys happiness, he is still a very happy baby. Yeah sure he has grumpy moments, but he is entitled to those rights.
I will look forward to his first birthday, and hope that he will be able to rip open his presents. And then a week later rip open more for Christmas.
Today my precious angel turned 10 months! 1 more till 11, and 2 more until he is a year!
Friday morning.. lots of screaming, and a nervous mommy...
Saturday morning.. more screaming..
Sunday morning.. little screaming and sleeping baby....
Awww how I liked this morning. It was so much better.
The difference was he was fed, we were fed, he had his medicine, and he was already tired. Tommy cuddled him, and by the second hand he was knocked out. It was so much better. We are both learning together, and it is definitely an adventure.
Both hands are looking so much better, both of which are turning normal skin color, from purple and bright pink. Slowly he is healing. The burn on his stomach was minimal, but is almost completely healed. And the graft site on his thigh, is also almost healed.
We go to the doctor tomorrow 1 1/2 hours away, it should be an event in itself. Then we proceed to lots of occupational therapy appointment, and I am sure there will be more appointments with the trauma (burn) doctors as well.
It sometimes feels like he will never be healed and we will be doing this forever, although I know it will all be over soon enough. This is only a long temporary thing. It still has not ruined my little guys happiness, he is still a very happy baby. Yeah sure he has grumpy moments, but he is entitled to those rights.
I will look forward to his first birthday, and hope that he will be able to rip open his presents. And then a week later rip open more for Christmas.
Today my precious angel turned 10 months! 1 more till 11, and 2 more until he is a year!
Friday, October 15, 2010
Its been way to long.. Needing to process recent events
I haven't blogged in quite a while. But after an event, I feel I need to get it all out and process this a little bit.
So Last Thursday October 7, 2010, I was cooking a pie just about to head to pick up Tommy. The pie was almost done, and I was gathering some diapers and some clothes for the babes. When I hear a awful scream, you know the one that means pain. It was Gavin. I run into the kitchen, where he is standing using the oven door to hold on to. Kahleb had opened the oven. I grabbed up the baby, immediately put warm water on it, put some burn cream on it, was running around like crazy, and called Tommy in a panic, and basically said baby is burnt get to hospital.. I vaguely remember him saying he didn't have a ride and I yelled back to borrow a car and get there now! I didn't even give him much details, and hung up. Yelling at the kids to get into the van and into their seats, he called back to get more details and I headed out to the hospital.
Tommy is already there, and I have had 45 minutes to process what all was going on, and I know I needed to be calm for the children and so I didn't drive crazy, because we have taken that road before too. (wrecking in panic)
I take the baby in, they get him back right away, they access him and immediately determine he needs to be transferred to Children's Hospital (St. Johns in Springfield). Tommy comes in and holds babe while they do an IV, and I wait with the other children in the waiting room, while my mom is headed to come and pick them up. Right after she got there, they got the IV in and already had been given Morphine. We then waited for the ambulance to transfer us to Springfield.
They get there, and we are on our way. Although little guy was pretty high on morphine, he didnt sleep the whole way there. We get to the hospital and take a tour and go to the burn unit, and then were told we needed to go to the Pediatrics ICU. We walk back down there and go on in. They get him all situated into the bed, hooked up the all the monitors. The burn unit arrive shortly to access the damage. The doctor said that since his hands were completely white, that meant his skin was essentially scorched, that he was going to need burn grafts. He said typically they would wait a couple days and wait and see since children are very resilient but his were pretty bad, we would do the grafts in the morning.
The next morning, Friday, we went in for surgery. It felt like forever, I think it took a couple hours. Where I sat alone and waiting. Finally the nurse comes out and says things are going well, they are just stitching and that is taking a while, since they have to do small and fragile stitching.
Eventually the doctor came out and said all was well. They took a graft from his thigh, and then also from his inner thigh and his stomach. He has what looks like a tummy tuck scar. And then for his thigh there is a patch gone, where they took a couple layers.
He had vacuum bags on his arm, which were literally vacuum sealed. After 48 hours they would take all the dressing off and go from there.
The next 48 hours were tiring, which involved him getting a lot of morphine, and by Saturday, I was cuddling with him in a rocker.
At this time, he had an IV, a pulse/oxygen monitor on his foot, a blood pressure on the foot, 3 probes monitoring heart rate, respiratory. And then 2 vacuum lines, one from each hand.
Sunday came a long- 48 hours later. Burn unit came down, they sedated him and took all the dressings off, cleaned him and applied new dressing. We were then told we would be transferred to regular pediatrics that day.
He seemed a lot happier up there, he only had one thing on, an IV.
By the next morning, he had kicked it out.
After Monday early morning, he was hooked to nothing. He was so so much happier.
On Sunday, he got splints to keep his hands open and spread apart.
Sleep was awful as the nurses were always waking him through the night. They'd wake him through naps. But overall the next couple days he spent sleeping and playing.
We did dressing changes every morning, I had learned how to do it, and by Thursday, we were going home. We will continue to change his dressing every day, he has to wear his splints for a long while. This will be a long journey of recovery.
At the hospital, he really didn't eat that much. As soon as we left he started eating more and was much happier.
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http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs885.snc4/71845_1420532201582_1481006620_30908335_7443637_n.jpg
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs291.snc4/40885_1420535521665_1481006620_30908358_6911590_n.jpg
GRAPHIC PICS OF HIS HANDS... A WEEK LATER
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http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs410.ash2/68841_1420538321735_1481006620_30908372_3085899_n.jpg
So Last Thursday October 7, 2010, I was cooking a pie just about to head to pick up Tommy. The pie was almost done, and I was gathering some diapers and some clothes for the babes. When I hear a awful scream, you know the one that means pain. It was Gavin. I run into the kitchen, where he is standing using the oven door to hold on to. Kahleb had opened the oven. I grabbed up the baby, immediately put warm water on it, put some burn cream on it, was running around like crazy, and called Tommy in a panic, and basically said baby is burnt get to hospital.. I vaguely remember him saying he didn't have a ride and I yelled back to borrow a car and get there now! I didn't even give him much details, and hung up. Yelling at the kids to get into the van and into their seats, he called back to get more details and I headed out to the hospital.
Tommy is already there, and I have had 45 minutes to process what all was going on, and I know I needed to be calm for the children and so I didn't drive crazy, because we have taken that road before too. (wrecking in panic)
I take the baby in, they get him back right away, they access him and immediately determine he needs to be transferred to Children's Hospital (St. Johns in Springfield). Tommy comes in and holds babe while they do an IV, and I wait with the other children in the waiting room, while my mom is headed to come and pick them up. Right after she got there, they got the IV in and already had been given Morphine. We then waited for the ambulance to transfer us to Springfield.
They get there, and we are on our way. Although little guy was pretty high on morphine, he didnt sleep the whole way there. We get to the hospital and take a tour and go to the burn unit, and then were told we needed to go to the Pediatrics ICU. We walk back down there and go on in. They get him all situated into the bed, hooked up the all the monitors. The burn unit arrive shortly to access the damage. The doctor said that since his hands were completely white, that meant his skin was essentially scorched, that he was going to need burn grafts. He said typically they would wait a couple days and wait and see since children are very resilient but his were pretty bad, we would do the grafts in the morning.
The next morning, Friday, we went in for surgery. It felt like forever, I think it took a couple hours. Where I sat alone and waiting. Finally the nurse comes out and says things are going well, they are just stitching and that is taking a while, since they have to do small and fragile stitching.
Eventually the doctor came out and said all was well. They took a graft from his thigh, and then also from his inner thigh and his stomach. He has what looks like a tummy tuck scar. And then for his thigh there is a patch gone, where they took a couple layers.
He had vacuum bags on his arm, which were literally vacuum sealed. After 48 hours they would take all the dressing off and go from there.
The next 48 hours were tiring, which involved him getting a lot of morphine, and by Saturday, I was cuddling with him in a rocker.
At this time, he had an IV, a pulse/oxygen monitor on his foot, a blood pressure on the foot, 3 probes monitoring heart rate, respiratory. And then 2 vacuum lines, one from each hand.
Sunday came a long- 48 hours later. Burn unit came down, they sedated him and took all the dressings off, cleaned him and applied new dressing. We were then told we would be transferred to regular pediatrics that day.
He seemed a lot happier up there, he only had one thing on, an IV.
By the next morning, he had kicked it out.
After Monday early morning, he was hooked to nothing. He was so so much happier.
On Sunday, he got splints to keep his hands open and spread apart.
Sleep was awful as the nurses were always waking him through the night. They'd wake him through naps. But overall the next couple days he spent sleeping and playing.
We did dressing changes every morning, I had learned how to do it, and by Thursday, we were going home. We will continue to change his dressing every day, he has to wear his splints for a long while. This will be a long journey of recovery.
At the hospital, he really didn't eat that much. As soon as we left he started eating more and was much happier.
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs813.snc4/69362_1420531881574_1481006620_30908334_5006672_n.jpg
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs885.snc4/71845_1420532201582_1481006620_30908335_7443637_n.jpg
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs291.snc4/40885_1420535521665_1481006620_30908358_6911590_n.jpg
GRAPHIC PICS OF HIS HANDS... A WEEK LATER
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http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs291.snc4/40885_1420535521665_1481006620_30908358_6911590_n.jpg
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs410.ash2/68841_1420538321735_1481006620_30908372_3085899_n.jpg
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