It's A Never-Ending Story!
It has been over six weeks since Rory's surgery, and he's healed amazingly as always. A week after his op we took him back to Sheffield for a dressing change, and following then Pete and I did the weekly dressing changes ourselves at home, with bandages/supplies provided by Sheffield. We sent them photos and they called back to give a thumbs up. No need to take him all the way back to Sheffield when his wound was looking good and we're pretty experienced in this task anyway. First dressing change compared to last Now that the bandages are off, you can really see the incredible results from Miss T's reconstruction work. Below, on the left, is a photo from a year ago where you can see how the patch of skin graft isn't growing and is therefore pulling tightly at the surrounding tissue and causing it to crease. The skin graft was also 'tethering' to his bone due to lack of fatty tissue, which was causing his bone to bend. Stage 1 of this operation happened ...