Week 5

Through 7-10-07

Yesterday and today have been lessons in pain management. We only medicated Miles twice yesterday and he seemed alright except when he was being moved. He also slept ALL DAY. Today, we went down to half doses of his medications, and that might have been a little too soon. He still was very sleepy, especially after being moved. He acted like he was in more pain today, but that may have been partly because we lowered the doses. He did okay at speech therapy, but it was not his most alert session.

The big event today was the long soak in the tub. Miles smells a lot better and this is almost as nice as having the cast off in the first place. It took both mom and dad to get the job done (sorry, no pictures!), and it was pretty gross removing all that dead skin. One more good bath, and we should be back to normal. All the steri-strips are off and we got a good look at his scars. They look good, for scars. He's going to have to come up with some really cool story about having a bionic pelvis!

Annie