A Smile!!

Faith made some good progress today.  First they removed the drain from her back.  Here's a pic of her bandage on her back and the drain that was inserted to drain excess blood and fluid that was building up around the donor site.  The first couple days they emptied it every four hours and got a fair amount of blood in it, but by this morning they said it was mostly clear and very little quantity so it could be removed.  She was pretty unhappy about it being pulled out, but I think it will make it a lot easier for her to start moving and feeling better.  The scar on her back is smaller than I thought it would be, which I'm very grateful for as it was really hard for us to think about her back having a big obvious scar on it.

Later this afternoon Faith sat up for the first time.  An Occupational Therapist came in to work with her and between us we finally got her to do it.  It took a good 30-60 minutes to get her to let us sit her up and sometime in the middle of working with her someone brought a package in for her from her Grandma and Grandpa Kargoll.  She was excited to see the package, so we said she could open it after she sat up.  She didn't like getting into a sitting position and she was very protective of her neck (imagine the crick you would get in your neck if you laid with your head turned in one direction for 4 straight days - OUCH!!).  Once she was sitting though, I felt her actually pull herself further forward a couple of times, so she must have liked being upright again even if getting there was scary.

After we laid her back down, Faith was anxious to open her present.  She loved everything in it, including the wrapping paper which she wanted to keep and started playing with it like it was an alligator mouth that would chomp my hand!  Below is a cute video with the butterfly from Grandma and Grandpa.  I didn't do a very good job catching her laughing and smiling but she was!

Perfect timing for this to show up!!  Thank you Grandma and Grandpa!