We are home!! The surgery was a complete success, thanks to all of your prayers and calls to the Temples and your happy thoughts. Fredrick is doing amazing and is getting better every day!
The doctors and nurses at CHOC were absolutely amazing...I can't say enough about how wonderful they all were. Those nurses are what I would imagine angels to be like, with neverending patience and unconditional love for all those children.
Here they are at 6am Thursday morning heading to the hospital to start our adventure
Let's start out with the before and after shots...
in the first picture you can see how the back of his head sloped down and he had almost a point on the back of his head...
And after...the back of his head is flat!!!!!
Some last minute snuggles before they took him back for surgery...he had fallen asleep in Greg's arms...he never sleeps in our arms
This is him a few hours after the surgery...he did lots of sleeping that first day which made for a few great chances to cuddle with him on our laps. It was much easier though once that nasty drain was out!!!
Here he is on Friday...day 2 with the drain out and just sleeping so peacefully!!
Here he is on Friday, acting just like good ol' Freddie playing with his foot
Can you believe this, not even 48 hours after having his head split open from ear to ear and his skull cut apart he's making faces at us and just being sweet!!
I know, this one looks a little somber, but you can see his beautiful blue eyes!!
And just so you don't think he made it through completely unscathed, here is a pic of him Saturday morning when the swelling started...he woke up with his right eye almost swollen shut and his head looking kinda lopsided, but that was the worst of it. Both of his eyes were supposed to swell shut, so he did really well!!
He's been home for 2 nights now, and while he isn't back to sleeping completely through the night yet, he's only waking up once and that's probably because we have him sleeping in the swing and bouncy chair to keep him from swelling. He looks amazing and with his hat on you'd never even know he had surgery!!
Thank you again to all of you for your prayers, he would have never made it out of this surgery so well without all your love and support. All of the doctors and nurses that came by thought he had been in there for a week because he looked so great. He really was a champ and we know it was because of all the love and prayers.
We will keep you updated as the time goes on and he heals.
6 comments:
So glad that everyone's prayers were answered and everything went well. Hopefully now your family can steer clear of contributing to the medical field for a while.
So glad everything went well!
I was just thinking about you guys this weekend and wondering how everything went. I am so glad that things went well and you are right, he does look good! Too cute! I love those cheeks!
Wow! Freddie's a little trooper! Poor little guy - but it looks like he handled it like a champ. I'm so glad to hear it all went well and the nurses and everyone was so good to you guys!
SO GLAD to hear things went well! I love those chubby little legs and cheeks. Yeah for the angel nurses. I know the Dr's have their part in the whole thing and definitely deserve their due credit and praise, but it's always the nurses that help you get through the whole emotional part of it. Heres to a continued healthy recovery!
It all sounds pretty miraculous. I'm really happy that everything went even better than hoped for. We've been thinkin about little freddie
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