Officially Four Weeks Post Lip Repair!

We had Kaylee's post lip repair visit with the doctor on Tuesday. It was informative, and we also got to talk a little bit about the palate surgery. It was a good visit to Denver, even though we never got around to visiting Dr. H. We got tired, and by we I mean Kaylee of course. Once she gets angry, the car veers towards the way home.

So, Dr. Allen is very pleased with how her lip turned out. He was very pleased with the scar and how it is coming along. He did tell us to be prepared though. You see, Kaylee's lip looks different from how it looked directly after surgery. After surgery, it was really straight and looked really good, now it has puckered up a bit and has gone a bit sideways. Dr. Allen told us to be prepared that it won't look any better in a month, or even two months. The way that our bodies heal themselves will cause the scar to pucker and pull up on her lip a little bit. So, for the next two months I get to rub a cream on Kaylee's lip called Scarfade. We need to do it twice a day for five minutes each time (basically morning nap and right as she falls asleep for the night). So far, it's going well, she doesn't wake up right away after a milk coma anyway, so this should work.

As far as her ears go: we are to leave them alone, the drainage will go away when it goes away and we will help it along by simply leaving it alone. The only thing we are allowed to do is to get a kleenex, roll one corner up and stick it in her ear to help clear out any gunk. Then we will start doing ear drops once the drainage goes away. Silly me, thinking that my daughter might have an infection...grrr. So, the antibiotics I had her on were doing absolutely nothing except giving her a bad bum-rash, which resolved itself the day after we stopped the antibiotics. Poor thing. Dr. Allen looked in her ears, he could see the tubes and could see that there wasn't anything wrong with them, just watch the fluid coming out, leave them be for a bit, and then start drops again.

We were worried that we were never going to be able to take Monster swimming, but guess what? No special precautions! We can go to the pool, to a lake, to the ocean, to wherever there is water. We get to go swimming. OMG! I love swimming. Swimming is good. So, yep.

Anyway, she finally hit 18lbs, and is doing well. She will be scheduled for surgery in three months for palate repair. She'll be 9 - 10 months old and she will have her whole entire palate repaired at one time. No triple surgery for us, no sir. We'll have it all done within one day, and then we will hopefully be done with surgeries for a few years  - hopefully. Anyway, that is the skinny for now. I hope you are all doing well. And here are a couple of pics for you all to enjoy. Enjoy!

I swear. I didn't do anything.

This crawling thing is hard.

Seriously, can I get a hand?

Oooh.. you have popcorn. I can haz?