Tubeless and thankful

When he woke up from surgery this morning I said, "how do you feel?" " Thankful and so happy not to have a VAC tube!" Oh, that darn TUBE! Once again we are experiencing God's mercy toward Todd. Though his head looks like a Smerf for the second time, his spirits are high and there is a big grin on his face because it feels good to be a little further down the path of recovery. Dr. Grossman said that the surgery went well except that they had to take the graft to cover the flap site from his thigh instead of from his head as he had hoped--there simply wasn't enough skin. I'm kind of glad that they choose another part of his body to harvest skin because I think his head would have been overwhelmed with rawness. He's such a brave trooper and never complains...even when his family would accidently yank on his tube!
Another piece of good news is that for the moment he is relatively pain free with mild medication that he likes! This could all change as the healing progresses, nerves wake up and the leg graft site "dries out". Ugh. From what we are told a graft site is even more painful than some of the head surgery. For now, how great to be thankful for great doctors and nurses, pain killers that really work, a future with skin everywhere and all the love any family could ever dream of and more....we can't thank you and our Lord Jesus enough...there just aren't words adequate for thankful, full hearts. Heather