Home and Settled

We are home and all settled in. Cowdery is back, Carolyn is in the bed, and I am about to join her! It's been a LONG day :). I'm am excited to get back to normal, and let the healing begin. She has complained of a lot of itching already, Dr. Jones said that is very common especially in this stage. We gave her a little Benadryl so hopefully that will keep it under control.

Bandages won't come off until post-op on Tuesday, and I will post lots of pics then. I was going to put one of the skin graft site up, but it really just looks like a bloody bandage, so thought I might spare you that for now :).

Off to bed now, and thanks for all your prayers through another surgery!! Good night!!

Dothan bound!

Man! They move fast!! We are already on the way home! Carolyn feels much better and we are about to stop at chick fil a because she is hungry! She just had a full dose of pain meds, so I am hoping that after she has a full belly she will be able to get some good sleep on the way home! The rain and the soothing sounds of talk radio should help too :).

The first pic is when she first came out to recovery. The frog is from Dr. Jones, which he gave her before she went back. Notice that "Hoppy" had a procedure as well. How cute is that?

Out!

Dr. Jones just came out to talk to us. He said everything went well and she is waking up a little in post-op now. They put in about 30 stitches (Carolyn will not be happy about that) and there will be more swelling with this surgery. He said that some of the detail will be lost for some time but will resurface when the swelling goes down. We can't wait to see her! Should only be about 15 more minutes!!

She's back....

And the waiting begins...

Ready for tomorrow

We are ready for bed and hopefully will get a good nights sleep since we have to be at the hospital at 5:30Est... 4:30 our time :). Carolyn is so excited about this one because they will lift it away from her head, which means she will be able to put her hair behind her ear!!! Before we started this reconstruction process, my sister said she wouldn't only be gaining an ear, but also a hand because all she ever did was hold her hair out of her face... Haha!

Surgery will begin at 7:30 est and will be approximately 3-3 1/2 hours. They will take a skin graft from the back side of her hip, cut the ear away from the head and place the skin behind it. I had to draw her panty line on her backside tonight with a sharpie, so that was a great source of amusement for her. She also couldn't get over the fact that Dr. Jones said "butt" at our pre-op appointment. She even had to call Cowdery to tell him. He must not know that is a bad word :).

Off to sleep and I will post updates in the morning! I can't believe we are already on round 3!!

Please send up some prayers for Carolyn tonight and in the morning!

Earrings!!!

Thanks to our sweet friend Sadie, Carolyn is wearing her first pair of earrings!!! They may be stick on, but they are just as sparkly as the real deal!! What a thoughtful gift!!