Rory's Skin Graft
Before jumping into the skin graft journey I feel it's a good time to look back at how much progress we've made over the last two months, despite the fact that reduced visits to Sheffield have meant things have been pretty quiet for us. This photo was taken on 5th January, at 6 months old. Looking pretty different to 5th November, 4 months old. I'll run through the various points of note in the November image: 1) The big one is the Vac Dressing. That's the machine in the black bag which is attached to Rory's leg. Regular readers will recall that the vac was permanently attached to Rory for about two months, from when the dead skin had been debrided to once the skin graft was mostly healed. Its purpose was to keep the open wound clean and clear of infection, and also to encourage blood vessels to grow upwards and prevent a dip or crater in his leg as the graft healed. We were all glad to be rid of the vac! 2) Difficult to see on this image but behind the le...