Evans FINAL Fill!!

I cannot believe we’re here. I couldn’t wait for this very moment a short 11 weeks ago. This moment seemed as though it would take forever to reach, lots of tears, more questions along the lines of “why us,” etc etc. But all of that is behind us and we are DONE with fills!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We didn’t quite reach our goal of 250 cc’s but Dr. Bauer said Evan looked great and there was no need to do our final planned fill. We reached 234 CC’s and his newly grown skin is perfect. No bruising, no redness, just flawlessness.

We did Evan’s final fill on Saturday. We got in another 22 cc’s and as I administered the needle going into his port, I thought to myself, “I have a feeling we’re done after this.” I have never been so happy about being RIGHT about something. We also taped this last fill (http://youtu.be/H1cnJ2JFcIE) and as always, he was a champ.

So now, we wait. I should be in Texas this week for work, but there was no way that was happening. There is too much to do to prepare for the next trip, and the last thing I need is to be away for a few days. I am just so ready this is almost over. I mentioned in a previous post that we may be overly optimistic to think this is it for surgeries. There could be an issue with eyebrow misalignment, not enough new skin to cover the whole birthmark, and who knows what else. But we’re here, we got here with no major hiccups or roadblocks, and all we can do is focus on next Monday. My guess is Evan will have surgery first thing, at 7:30am. Assuming all goes well our plan is to start driving home that Thursday but stop in Ohio to break up the trip and arrive home midday Friday. We don’t want to push him as he will probably be sore post surgery.

Until then…please keep us in your thoughts and prayers. This has been QUITE the journey, and we are getting by with the love and support from our family and friends.


























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