These are actually Mike's first stitches. After his first surgery he had these knarly-cool quarter inch staples holding his neck together. I thought "wow, what a wicked cool scar..." and then by the time we landed back in Nebraska you could barely see it even 10 days out of surgery.
I have decided to post the stitches photo (I tried to make it small) because by the time you see him his scar will be invisible again. The drain comes out today and the stitches on Tuesday (Lord willing.)
When Dr. Haughey said that this would be a simpler procedure, after the last surgery we could not conceptualize how non-painful it could be. On every level we were pleasantly surprised - no hospital stay, no swallowing issues, no sleeping issues. He has not taken any pain pills. (He only took two Alleve after the surgery for what I believe could have been a caffeine headache.)
We have an appointment with the radiologist who works with Dr. Haughey on Tuesday and Mike's stitches are scheduled to come out on Wednesday. We just changed our flights to stay through the weekend because basically it would cost $700 to come home today and fly back early next week. (More on that later.)
Just know that the patient is doing great! By the way, there are 20 stitches.
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