Our prayers were answered..
My son was in surgery about 8 hours.. he got to his room in the peds ICU about 12 hours post initial registration.. pretty long day for all of us 😅
The procedure went well, his nurse told me he woke up and said he felt "wonderful" this morning.
Today he will try to walk a bit and I am making him an epic smoothie because he loves those.. i am getting him all his favorite foods this week 😋😁
Thanks everyone for your prayers and messages.. it really means the world to us.
He has a rough stretch ahead recovering but he is so strong and hopeful. Precious little man..
Lastly, does anyone have any post surgery wound advice on how best to minimize scarring? Aloe.. mederma..
Bless you all.. I truly love you, Frens. 🥰
Glad to hear that!!!
As soon as the wound is closed use coconut oil - it has high antibiotic properties and helped A LOT with my father (Parkinson) when he got open wounds due to sitting and lying so much. NOTHING else helped so quickly, so cheap and so effectively - the only struggle was that with the nurses to use it and don't use the chemical creams. Wounds were healed within three days!
Also calendula extract mixed into coconut oil or extracted from leaves into the slowly heated oil. But for our problems (which were heavy) the coconut oil was sufficient!
You don't have to heat...just stirring heats the coconut oil up sufficiently to disperse the calendula...I use coconut oil as the basis for all my essential oil salves. Calendula is a terrific healer....have use Calendula ointment for over 43 years...my doctor gave some to me for diaper rash when my first child was born...and we have used ever since...
... calendula leaves disperse so easily? (decades ago I made my first calendula cream with glycerine and calendula leaves - it was a big mess to make it, heating up the glycerine and later separating it again from the leafs - but helped a lot)
(Edited -> leaf - leaves = I really have difficulties with my grammar today - lol)
Oh...sorry...I thought you were using calendula tincture or extract...or oil...any liquid stirs easily into the coconut oil...I have never made anything from the leaves...I imagine that would be a mess. I wonder if you could just place a calendula leaf on the wound much like the aloe vera leaf. I have never owned a calendula plant...but calendula is an all time winner in my book..............
I mentioned both. Calendula leaves are taken from the flower, yellow-orange like petals. They are very pretty in the garden, blossoming very long and they come again next year. Yes, the extract will be easier to handle. And the aloe vera leaves are really moist, but the calendula leaves are like flower petals.
Calendula! A holistic doc I went to 20 years ago gave me some ‘homemade’ calendula salve for my scars from many surgeries.
Thank you so much! I have it on hand!
All the best for your son and your whole family, fren - God bless and protect you all!
Thank you so much 🙏