Day 25 - Preparing for another surgery

Summary: Daniel is at UCHealth in the ICU Burn Unit where he will remain for many more weeks recovering from burns over 57% of his body on January 25th, 2017. We expect a full recovery and eventual return to home - but it's a long road ahead.

Today Daniel will be resting up and preparing for his second grafting surgery planned for Monday. Amanda, his sister is with him now soothing his hair and helping him to relax. It's really nice to have Amanda with us for the weekend.

Daniel's white blood cell count continues to rise and the doctors think the most likely reason is the area of skin on his throat and shoulder needs to come off. He's on a broad-spectrum antibiotic that will handle any infection, but he doesn't seem to show any signs of infection anywhere so it's more of a precaution than anything. As the plan for Monday's surgery is to graft that location (neck, chin, shoulder) it's probably exactly the right thing to do and nothing to worry about now.

Now for some "fun" with pain: I've set up a form that you may participate with. I've been wondering a lot about pain (since Daniel is unable to tell us exactly what he's feeling) and wanted to expand it so readers could also chime in with their own experiences.  All input is anonymous - I can't see your username or email or other personal details (unless of course you wrote your name on an answer - please don't do that). So click away and at the end of the survey when you SUBMIT your choices you can view previous results to see pie chart of responses. In a future post I'll attempt to draw some conclusions from your inputs so THANKS!