Saturday's Post...but actually for thursday...

....these are thursday's photos...

We are ecstatic at the results!!

At our followup on Thurs, Dr. G said that
we only need one more surgery. Due to
all our schedules we are looking at August
to get the cheek implant (slides through
the upper portion of the mouth to fill in
the cheek area) and insertion of fat into
the upper eyelid. I offered for Dr. G to use
my fat but he said that wouldn't be happening.
Not sure where he's gonna find an ounce of
fat on Taylor...but I guess we have 4 months
to fatten him up!


A picture with our wonderful hosts before we
took off Thursday afternoon for home...

skipped thurs, it's friday!

Got a fabulous report from the Dr so we jumped in the tahoe, and went to Hollys and packed up and did an all night drive to get home! So it's friday a.m. and I will post pics later today. Everything is awesome and we are now home.... check back later!

thanks....

Wed, Day 6...making great progress!!

Bryan flies in at noon tomorrow and Tay's
appointment is at 3. We will know more then!

I can't imagine that Dr. Genecov won't give
the thumb's up to send us home for a couple of months
until he is ready
to start on surgery #2 (it's a series of 3).

Hugs to you all........

Tues, Day 5.........

It's always a good day when
you get to be with Aunt Holly!

The patient went to bed at 8p.m. last night
and didn't get up til almost noon!
Must have worked for him tho....

He had the energy to entertain me! Woohoo!

I had a couple of errands to run
and he was up to
going with me
to be the passenger as
long as we drove
at a slow........
steady pace....
if he could ride in the front seat....
and
could throw some Oakley's on his sweet face....
and make a Guitar Center stop!!!



On the way we dropped Oliver to daycare
so he could hang with his
"pups" (peeps in puppy language) and that
wore him out for the rest of the night.



Tay is on the couch with me as we speak.
Sounds good.
Looks good!
Feels much better.
Seeing the boys personality again. We are happy campers!

He ate fried rice from Pei Wei and even
had a couple of bites of dessert.
I think he's coming back to us!!

Bryan made it home safely where
he said it was 82 and blue skies!
Guess he spent some time on the Goldwing before he has to turn around and make his way back to us on thursday...

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We'll see you tomorrow!!

Tues a.m........

Good morning! 10:30 and still waiting for Tay to wake up for the day. Bryan woke him up for a bit to get some "doctoring" done before he flew home so I wouldn't have to do it! He said that he felt that the swelling was down a bit more...

So he'll be up in a bit so he can be medicated. He did say he wasn't hurting too much when Bryan woke him up. It's such a good thing that he's sleeping. He's had a really difficult time maintaining sleep for a good length of time.

Also, Tay was able to have some solid food last nite (fried rice) and asked for some Ben and Jerry's while I was at the grocery store so maybe he'll be up to ice cream today. Also he got about 5 min of guitar playing in yesterday so that was good news! Got the guitar last week, not sure what brand but I guess it's a big deal and he's thrilled about it!

Thanks for checking in with us this a.m. and thank you for your prayers and support!

Will post more later when Tay's up and at 'em!

Monday Dr. Visit -- bye, bye tube...

Ever seen a cuter fella?

Move ahead 16 years!!

Appt at 10 a.m. in Dr. Genecov's office to get the
drainage tube removed. It's about a 45 minute drive

from Aunt Holly's house to the Dr's. Tay decided

to sit in the back seat...bad move....

goodbye liquid breakfast!

Poor guy..... Pretty wasted by the time we made it

for the appointment.

Thus, the unhappy look on the face.

(Course we have a few of those pics over the last few days, don't we?)

Dr. and Nurse Kelly do the duty of cutting out the tube and removing it. Hallelujah!!

Next appointment on Thursday. So far, so good. May get the go ahead to go home at that point. We will see. Not sure when able to get back to work---that seemed to be more of an unknown at this time.

Tay's Dad (Bryan) flies home tomorrow and back on thursday before the appointment so we will see!

We had Tay back home by noon.

He was able to keep down a

half can of chicken noodle soup!

Yay! He seems to be feeling

some better and is moving

about some!!

Evening of Day 3...

How's Tay today?
Question of the day!

Well, some better. He did eat half a can of chicken noodle soup and had some protein shake. Good news, I guess, is that he's losing a little weight. (LOL) He got up for a little bit (5 minutes) in the living room to hang with his family, and then it was back to bed. All in all though, I think he is doing some better.

This first pic shows how incredible the comparison of the temple looks as well as the bottom eyelid. Wow!
However, we still have a swollen jaw...
but that shall pass!

Monday. 10 a.m. (tomorrow)
Dr's visit and the tube gets pulled!
This is the first step to feeling better.
Tay can hardly wait!

Next post will be after the Dr's visit.
Thanks for all your prayers.
We are grateful for each of you.