Once we were home we were greeted by a relieved Grandma, Max & Sasha. Sasha was immediately attached to him like glue, but of course he just wanted me. Tom went to get his antibiotics but there was a problem at the pharmacy, they could not find the prescribing doctor in their database anywhere so they sent Tom home and said they would have it figured out in a few hours. After Colin went to bed I went to take mom home and pick up his prescriptions. To my utter disbelief they had not even tried to call Children’s Hospital like the told Tom they would. I was livid! I have a 13 month old son with burns that will need that in a few hours. Once they had a very angry and tired mother in there they had it straightened out in a few minutes.
Because Colin had bandages all over his stomach and legs he
needed to go back to Children’s Hospital every 3 days for burn baths. That is
where they remove all the bandages and put Colin in a big bath tub and wash him
with special soap and then put fresh bandages on him. To get this done quickly
and not have Colin thrashing around and possibly hurting himself more he needed
to be sedated. For his first burn bath I could not watch so instead the nurses
sent me for a cup of coffee and I was told to come back in ½ hour.
I got back in time just in time for him to come out. We got
dressed and headed home. We had to do this for 2-3 weeks. I started to go in
after the first bath and I felt much better because he was healing so well.
Once we were done the burn baths his stomach had started to
heal so he did not need the bandages anymore. They were still worried about his
thighs so we had to start going to VGH every week for checkups there and to
make sure he did not need a skin graft. After 3 appointments we were given the
good news that he did not need to come back unless I felt the need! We just had
to make sure he was well covered in the sun and make sure we kept his skin well
moisturised!
Part 4- Hornby Island and a Wedding!
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