Getting back to "normal"

Ha ha, isn't that a funny title of mine? I guess it's true when you realize that "normal" is a relative term. The reason I used that word is because Adam is now allowed to resume "normal" activity. We are happy about that, though not as happy as he is, I'm sure.

In Denver yesterday we stuck to our normal routine. The nurse took all of the dressings off, then brought the doctor in to look at things. Adam has another yeast infection, so we will stop the lotion massage and start a prescription of Diflucan again. The donor site on his left leg was still very red and looked "yeasty", as the nurse put it. The graft site on his right leg is looking very good, and the thick dressings are a thing of the past.

Here are some pictures from yesterday:

You can see the graft site pretty well in this one. Those dark edges throughout are the edges of the donor skin.

The Child life Specialist (a person who comes in with toys, and their job is to distract kids from what the doctors and nurses are doing) brought a game with her yesterday, and Adam thought it was pretty darn cool.

His legs now have pretty simple dressings on: just a large nonstick pad smeared with nystatin (an anti-fungal ointment), and a thin tube of fabric pulled up over his thighs like nylons. He has a bandage on his side to protect it because it's still not healed.

We don't have to go back for two weeks, at which time they will have the compression garment and they will make sure that it fits correctly. Hopefully it will, because we are moving less than a week later.