Great News!!!

May!!! That's right! We won't have to go back for our next appointment until May. That's like, after winter!! That's Spring! With summer right around the corner! Yay!!!

After a very long drive in

and passing quite a few accidents, some being fender-benders, and another being a big one with a transport truck, we thanked God once again that none of these accidents involved us.

Keziah wasn't too anxious about going to the hospital. We told her we were going to say "hi" to Dr. Zuker since we haven't seen him in awhile. She did ask me a few times if it was going to hurt, but I tried to reassure her as best as I could that no, this time it will not hurt. I did inform her that Dr. Zuker will probably want to touch her face, so we practiced that together.

This is how you know you are at a Childrens Hopsital: the bottoms of the beds have murals on them! :o)

She was nervous when he walked in but became more relaxed as he talked to her. He has great bedside manners!! And she let him touch her face!! She did SO well! She sat nice and still, while he touched and prodded. We were so proud of her.

And what does Dr. Zuker think? He is very thrilled with the results of the surgery. He couldn't believe how nice the skin graft looks, as well as the incisions. You could see he was quite proud of his work, as he should be. He did such an amazing job.

Through the prodding he could tell that everything was still quite inflammed, which is why he wants to wait until May to do the next phase. The next phase will be to remove her eyebrow and replace it with skin from behind her ear. He also would like to fix her eye as it has already started to droop.

I did notice the droop a few weeks ago but I thought it was the fact that her eye now looked so "heavy" with such a dark and fleshy eyebrow. But it is actually the corner of her eye that is starting to droop, which is pulling the eyebrow down with it. It's not that noticeable. Yet. But it will continue to droop more and more as the skin settles back, which will distort her eye. So when he does the eyebrow, he will also do something about the droop (what a word. Droop.) We knew this was one of the risks as her birthmark is so close to the eye. We pray that it may be "fixable" for her.

Do you see the droop? I know, it's hard to notice when you have such beautiful brown eyes staring right back at you :o)

We will continue to take pictures of her scars and skin graft for another risk. And that is the risk of the birthmark growing back. This can happen because not all the cells are gone. That is another reason why the eyebrow needs to come off. There are a lot of cells there so the risk rises of it coming back. We pray also that this doesn't happen. Because we see her all the time, we won't notice the changes as they are gradual. So pictures we will take. I don't mind and it looks like she doesn't mind either :o)

So once again, we are praising God for blessing this journey thus far. He has shown His faithfulness and love to Keziah, giving her all that she has needed to recuperate. She has healed up beautifully and we pray that the healing may continue to go well. Thank you again for your many prayers!!

We are so blessed in so many ways.