The New Jaw

Alright, this is the best shot we could get. She's still not closing her mouth too much, but it's getting better every day. You can see this is quite the drastic change. Let's just pray it's enough to get that trach out eventually. We're all very happy to be home, but man oh man is …

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DONE!!!

She's done! At least with turning the screws. It turned out that the screws weren't the style that detach, so the surgeon used wired cutters to cut them down. They're pretty sharp, so Ty will need to file or snip them a bit, but it's much nicer than having the screws getting in the way …

Snuggle Snuggle

Evie was pretty upset as her pain meds wore off today. When we asked her what she needed, she told us what she's been telling us since the surgery (read the top line):

A Few More Days

We had Evie's follow up yesterday which we thought would be the last one, but they decided to have us keep turning the screws until the mechanism jammed up. They put 25mm distractors in which in theory would allow you to turn the screws for 25 days, but the plastic surgeon said they usually only …