Hurray for healing!

I can't believe how well this all is healing! Yes it looks red and such but that is to be expected. The oozing and goo-ing has pretty much slowed so much. The dead skin is finally coming off and the actual insiscions are healing from the inside out. We change her bandages twice daily and use a tube of bacitracin a day. Unfortunately, the red around her foot is part of the scaring. We are hoping within a few short weeks that we can have her go bandgage-less. As you can tell, she is still wearing the lime green nail polish she had on since her surgery. I try to take it off and give her a pedicure but she retracts her foot like a tape measure when I get too close or even think of altering her toes in anyway. The swelling has almost completely deminished, so her toes don't look like twinkies, which is quite an improvement. She is excited to see Dr. Stahl (her surgeon) to show him how awesome she did taking care of her foot. She is triumphant with her successful healing and her fantastic sense of taking direction. I am sure she will leave out that she has been running, jumping off playscapes, getting bandages soaked in sprinklers etc. Those are small details that he just doesn't have to know.Still no word on her surgery this week. Seems Yale has better things to do than to contact a parent for scheduling.

Thank you Cynde for the Fashionista Barbie. Mia was so excited to have the mailman ask for her at the door! She played with it for HOURS but questioning the whole time why barbie doesn't have to wear "big girl" undies. My husband could do nothing but chuckle and wonder it himself. Poor man has a house full of girls......