Healing and Recovery

It has been five days since Brennan's accident but it feels like it's been a month.  Things are much improved here.  He has healed up faster than we had imagined he would and we have a better hold on the situation than we had anticipated.  At first it seemed like just an unbearable thing but we have adapted and we have taking care of him down to a science, especially the bandaging part.

His face has really healed up and maybe look almost normal quite soon.  We bathe him every morning and wash his face to get the old ointment off and then we put ointment on it about 7 times a day. 

Brennan's hand still looks a little bad to me.  Dan says he can see the difference in it and it looks better to him every day.  It will be interesting to see how his doctors feel about it next Tuesday.  I hope they think it has improved a lot. 

Other than bath time and bandage time, where he still screams a lot and he's miserable, his life is pretty normal.  He laughs and plays as rough as always.  We have even adapted so that he can spend time outside because he loves it.  We try to walk in the early morning or early evening so there isn't direct sun on his face.  If the sun is out, we just pull the stroller backwards.   He has really been wanting to go outside in the back yard.  Today I put a plastic band over his sock hand, with tape, which is the same thing we do when he eats.  That way he can play on the ground and not get his bandage dirty or wet.  It worked perfectly.

He helped me pick up the apples with his one good hand: