Day 8.

Yesterday was 1-week post-op and she is doing fantastic!

After we took her q-tip off on Christmas night, she still had quite a bit of swelling. Like her head and ear were literally touching. And they don't normally. It's hard to tell in the picture. But her ear is fat.



(Day 2. Just after taking off that horrible hat. Sponge bath. She sat so still.)

But the swelling is pretty much gone from her head and face. And her tiny black eye is more of a yellow eye now.

And the incision looks really good, although it's still covered with a lot of steri-strips. We've avoided tub baths and full-on hair washing, although I did put her in the sink last night. (She lays down in the tub as soon as I put her in and the incision needs to stay dry and bacteria free, so we've been avoiding the tub.) I just felt like she needed to be submerged in water to get good and clean after a week with only sponge baths.






(Pics are from day 4.)

She's been on an antibiotic (remember all the puss?) and ear drops (since they took out the tube and put her ear drum back together again...similar to Humpty Dumpty) but no pain meds or Tylenol since last Thursday morning. She does favor her right side and won't lay on that side or let me hold her on that side. We've been taking toys to bed with us to keep hands occupied if we wake up instead of messing with our head. That little trick has worked because she's barely laid a finger on it. And we finally wore an over the head shirt on Friday night. (Daddy was worried that Mommy might harm EK in the dressing process, so it's been footie zip-up pjs for the week. It is a little like dressing an agitated octopus when you dress her, so I can see where he would be concerned.)







This is day 7. Not much different than above except swelling gone.

I mean, this chick is a rock star!! Major head surgery...no problem for her!! After the removal of the ROLLS of gauze, she's been 99% back to normal. Maybe a little extra clingy to Mommy, but no complaining about that.




Oh....Happy New Year's Eve from our little dysfunctional family to yours.
Just keeping it real...kids all smiled out, I needed a snack and Kenny standing a little too close to the light. Mood lighting, perhaps?




Activation Day in t-minus 3 days!! Stay tuned.......