The Windmill

The photo below is not for the faint of heart, so viewer beware.  As you can imagine, when the doctors resected Tag's tumor, it was very large and had stretched the skin on his little scalp almost to its maximum.  So, to take it off without leaving a large vertical scar, Dr. Sadiki employed a strategy to fold the skin in a windmill fashion and stitched Tag up in the middle.  Thus, when he heals only a small, round scar will be what's left.

It just shocks Joann and I that in less than 48 hours from the time little Tag came out of such an unknown surgery, we walked him out of the hospital without even a bandage covering the wound.  And what a gnarly, impressive wound it is!  Here's Tag's new look for the next few months:

This was taken Sunday morning just before the doctor removed the little drainage tube at the base of his head.  When he removed it, it kind of freaked me out, as the tube was about 6 inches long and went way up into the area of the wound.  Yikes!

Anyway, as the wound heals, the skin is supposed to tighten and pull the skin folds away, leaving just a small round scar in the middle.  Tag doesn't seem to be too bugged by the wound and we even bathed him last night and cleaned things off.

This has to be the sweetest looking Halloween wound I've ever seen!  Oh, how I wish it was October.  Tag would for sure win any Halloween costume contest he entered.

 As you can see above, his little ear actually looks pretty good.  And look, NO BUMP!  I'm very proud of my son for his courage and amazing capacity to be happy.

Thanks to everyone for all the prayers and good vibes on our behalf.  We feel very blessed and lucky to have Tag back home again.