After Surgery #1

Recovery and pain management lasted about 2 days.  After day two at home he was totally off Tylenol.  The new challenge was that he was teething at the same time, so he had discomfort there which made it tough to grasp why he would be crying.  We tried to ditch the Tylenol with codeine as soon as possible and stick with ibuprofen or or low dose Tylenol.

Full healing of the stitches took about 3 weeks and there was bruising that set in lasting about 4 days after the surgery.

Day 1 after surgery in hospital

Day 2 

Day 3

Day 4

Day 6

Day 16

The swelling has gone down enough by day 16 that you can start seeing the insertion ports that look like two quarter sized bumps under the mole.  The balloon expanders are back and above his ear and in his forehead straight above his nose in the day 16 picture.  The balloons are under the skin and will be expanded to increase non-mole skin surface area.