November 9, 2006 - 24 Days After Surgery

I took what I think is a fantastic picture of Aiden today (if I do say so myself!!). I wanted to take a picture of Aiden to post, and show you that his bandages and Steri Strips are almost all off. Little by little, for about 2 weeks now, as the bandages have been peeling away we have just been taking a pair of scizzors and trimming them up. Today, as you can see, we're almost done (or he's almost done - I'm not sure which :>)! And, Aiden's incision scar looks like it is healing up really well.

After I had taken these pictures, I looked back at them on my camera and noticed a pretty cool thing. On the first picture shown here you can REALLY see the outline of Aiden's implant. I think that's so cool. I never really realized how big it is! As you can see in the second picture (which is just here for comparison sake) under normal circumstances you can't really see the implant at all. I don't know if it was just the lighting or shadows or camera flash that caught it on the first one. But, whatever, it's pretty amazing! Once his hair grows back, this view of the implant will probably never be available again.

Once the bandage is all off, I'll take another snapshot so you can see the incision. I still haven't seen the whole thing myself, but it seems to be pretty long.