As I posted a few weeks ago, D had THING attached to his face removed. The biopsy found that it wasn't: cancer, mole, wart, fungus. The cultures did show up with a staph infection, but not MRSA and another bacteria, but she said it so fast I couldn't write it down. It has been determined that Thing was just an infection that got out of control and never healed.
Well, it's been 3 weeks, 10 days of specified antibiotics and I'm happy to say that THING is healing very very well. I took D back to the dr. yesterday to have the bandage removed that was put on at the time of his surgery. While D was very nervous and he did cry, he was a trooper!! He sat on my lap, the dr. took a pair of tweezers and peeled the bandage off smoothly and quickly (this is where D cried). Once it was off, she looked at Thing and WOW, it's all nice and pink with no infection found. D was also interested in looking at Thing, so he scrambled off my lap to have a look in the mirror.
The Dr. is very pleased with the healing. She did not put another large bandage on it, instead he's got a medicated pad and then a regular band aid on top. I'm to change the pad and band aid daily, so that should be interesting, but D will soon get used to it. I took D to WalMart after the appt and he picked out the band aids that he wanted - Spiderman and Transformers. The Dr. wants it kept covered until it is fully healed, so perhaps another few weeks of bandages and it looks as if Thing will soon be a "thing" of the past!
So glad to hear that "things" are almost a "thing" of the past. I know how long you and D have worked to resolve this.
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