Surgery is over and we are home

Sorry for the late update but it's been rough since Charlie woke up. We were called up to the recovery room about 10:30am. When we walked around the curtain I must admit I was shocked. The nurse was rocking him and feeding him glucose water but his incisions were much bigger than I expected and I was surprised to see the swelling and no hair. His whole head was so distorted. When he saw me he immediately broke down into tears. I scooped him up and breastfed him. For the first hour or so I just nursed him and if I moved he cried. So I just let him nurse and sleep. They were giving him morphine because he seemed like he was in a lot of pain.

We met with the surgeon and he said the surgery overall went well. He ended up putting in 3 tissue expanders because the ones he used in the back were smaller so he used 2 back there and one in his forehead. The three lumps on the nevus side are where the ports are. He injected just a small amount of saline for now. We will see him Tues for a post-op appt and then we will start fills in three weeks.

By about 12noon the nurse thought we were okay to go home. If Charlie is awake he is pretty irritable but he is pretty groggy and keeps going in and out of sleep. By 1:00 we were discharged and on the road home. Luckily he slept most of the way home.

Now we are home and resting in bed. I think it's going to be a long couple of days but with the "village" we have I think we can make it through. I just can't believe we have to do this at least 3 more times (maybe more).

WARNING: these are graphic post-op pics