On The Road to Recovery!!

Just an update on surgery. Everything went good. When the dr's office called to schedule the surgery they notified us that they don't accept our insurance, which is super dumb because we went to St. Marks and they accept our insurance. Anyway.. we called the dr that did his appendix surgery and they were able to sqeeze him in today. He also got his "butt" scar fixed! We will see how it looks! The doctor said one of the tubes into his gall bladder was too small to get a camera in to check for stones. The small tube is probably what caused his problems and that is straight genetics! We are home and and recovering. He is in pain so hopefully we can get him sleeping and on the road to feeling normal again! The thing he wants most is a hamburger. Yeah.. I think that will have to wait at least a couple days or weeks! Thanks for everyone's thoughts and prayers!

I will explain the "Butt" scar. We had some issues with Brandon's appendix incision. Shortly after he came home from his week stay at the hospital we took his bandage off so that he could shower. well...he came into the room and said "um... is this normal?" HE HAD A HOLE IN HIS STOMACH! Not just a small hole either and it was almost an inch deep! I had to lay down on the floor and put my feet up to stop from passing out! I was like.. "UM, NO! call the doctor! " His incision had popped open. They decided it was best for it to heal from the inside out so they left it open. That happens sometimes with a ruptured appendix because there is so much infection inside.. that is the only way it can come out! We had to change the bandage morning and night and I couldn't look at it or i would throw up, so I would take the tape off and Brandon would take the rest off and put a new gauze bandage on and I would tape him up! It was so nasty! I have some pictures when it was close to being healed up but you can still see the hole.. I won't post them.. don't worry. Anyway... the scar was super ugly and HUGE when it healed and made it look like he had a second butt on his stomach, but I couldn't complain.. at least it wasn't a hole! The scar was about half an inch thick and you could see the stretch marks from it and he had two big bumps on the sides of it! UGLY! So whent he dr told us he didn't want his name on that and was going to fix it.. we were excited! I was going to take before and after pictures of the scar, but I totally forgot! We took the bandages off and looked at it..we were both super nervous of what it would look like.. but very thin and unnoticeable..the bumps are gone and Brandon is wondering if they did some lipo while he was in there! :) It looks really good! Thanks to Dr. Vorhees!