Hitting OT Hard

Whitney (7pm PST, Monday, 3/28/22)

This week has been an emotional roller coaster, weaning off meds, starting new ones, making for one emotional girl. With the lack of surgeries and procedures she has been hitting OT hard this week. 

The plastic surgeon removed the last bandage from her face and decided it looks so good she wanted to wait until this week to decide if she needed grafts! We haven’t heard an update from Plastics yet but as of right now it’s looking really good that she may not have to have her face grafted. The last synthetic material they put on her face was actually from umbilical cord. That is just so cool! Full of stem cells and nutrients, creating the perfect wound bed for new skin to grow. 

Pepper continues to work hard and some days are better than others, and  today was a good day. Today she’s walked into the hall and back, stood at bedside while we changed her diaper, sat on the edge of her bed for an hour and a half, and while sitting has fed herself a bag of popcorn, 2 smoothies & used a fork to eat a bowl of fruit.  

Surgery penciled in for Wednesday to cover the front of her body with grafts. It has been 10 days since her last surgery. Making it the longest break in between surgery that she’s has since getting here! One day at a time.