Shriner's Visit

We took Maddox yesterday for his appt. at Shriner's. It was a month since his last visit. We are SO blessed to announce we don't need to go back there. He checked out great. The doctor said she couldn't even find which hand the burn was on. It's amazing to see how his hand looked to where it is now. He's really pulled through.
It's just imperative that we keep at least a 30 sunscreen on him. Any kind of sun to his hand without it will permanently discolor him until his new skin completely comes through. WHen we're outside you can tell where the burns are more than inside. Must be the lighting. Thanks for all the prayers. We're so blessed to have a great report; although I will miss the nurses, docs, etc. from Shriner's. I have never come in contact with such amazing people who truly loved us and Maddox.

Maddox 6 month pics

Maddox's 6 month pictures by Aunt Bit-Bit!!!!!

Maddox is 6 months!

Maddox had his 6 month check-up on the 18th. Whew. Where does the time go? He's getting so big. He's now 16 lbs. 13.6 oz. and is 27 1/4 inches long. He's in the 50% for his weight and 75% for his height. He's still a bit behind in weight I believe because he's not been able to eat much formula.
We have to mix a lot of rice wiht his bottles since he projectiles. He's not allowed to have more than 4 oz. at a time. He's doubled the dose of zantac, and that's helping a lot.
He's eating 2nd foods. He's to eat more foods than formula to supplement becuase he can tolerate the foods, not the formula.
We had a good visit overall.We go back at 9 months.
We're so ready for spring in this house :)

Maddox's 2 week update on hand

We took Maddox yesterday to SHriner's for his 2nd week check up on his hand. He is doing very well. They don't think skin grafting is going to happen.
There is one spot that is a little darker and more burned on the back side of his wrist that if it were bigger, they woudl consider grafting, but it's so small, they think it might just look like a scar at the most. Great news.
Carson has been such a big brother thorugh all this. Every time I clean Maddox up, Carson says "Don't hurt my brother mama". He does't like seeing his boo boo as he thinks it hurts him.
We need to go back in one month for another check up.
We need to put lotion on him 2x a day after cleaning him with dial soap and after one month, hopefully, his color shoudl be back to normal. No more red. They did tell us if his hair is reddish at all, it would take a litlte longer than one month to get back to normal.
We need to keep 30 + sunscreen on him anytime we're in the sun. Any kind of sun to his hand or burns will cause permanent discoloration for him, so it's very important that we keep his sunscreen on him daily.
He's doing well and carson is also. Thanks for the prayers. THey have been answered.

Maddox update

Maddox did very well the first night. He slept about 6 hrs. at a time and didnt seem to really have much pain through the night. Although we could give Tylenol with Codeine if needed every 6 hrs. I didn't have to do this the first night.
Last night he still slept, but I noticed he was favoring his left hand. He wasn't holding his taggie as he normally does, just with his right hand. He was a bit more fussy.
When it came to cleaning up his wounds this morning, he's begun bleeding and it's a constant bleeding, which is normal they said at Shriner's.
Today was very painful for him. Everything he did hurt it. He's been crying more today than he has been.
Just feel so bad for him. I wish there was more we could do. We follow up on Friday with Shriner's for another appt. for him to ensure he's not got any kind of infection. We are to keep an eye on infection ourselves as well.
We are praying he gets better. We know he will and it's just going to take some time for him since he is only 5 mos. old.
We just pray for him daily and hope for a speedy recovery as he's in so much pain!
I will keep you updated on everything!

Maddox's accident

For those of you who don't know the story, here it goes:
We were at lunch at the Honey Baked Ham store in Kenwood. Garrett was paying after he dropped the food off at the table. I had Maddox on my lap getting ready to feed him. Carson was sitting beside me.
My soup was in a basket (like a hot dog/hamburger basket, paper type) along with my sandwich. I noticed Maddox was inching to get to it, so I moved it back further on the table.
In the meantime, Carson asked me to open his pop for him. I leaned up very little to open the pop when Maddox started screaming.
He had grabbed onto the basket and pulled it down enough to where some of the soup spilled onto his hand.
Instantly his skin began peeling back. We were PANICKED. Garrett called 9-1-1 while I had his hand in water (as paramedics told us to do till they got there). They rushed him to Children's. Children's detemined he had 2nd degree burns around the top of his left hand (not his fingers...thank GOD he's got feeling, etc. in his hands/fingers, etc.) and around his wrist where his long sleeve shirt caught the majority of soup from crawling further up his arms, so his wrists had large bubbles.
Garrett took Carson in the car to Children's (he was only about 5 min. behind them......he was QUICK)
In the ambulance they were able to get gauze around him while he was screaming the ENTIRE time.(of course). I held the oxygen mask near his face, not around him, to calm him.
Children's referred us to Shriner's Hospital. They are the most amazing hospital around. I loved every bit of our experience there. They determined 2nd degree burns throughout as well. There is one part around his wrist that is a tad bit white, but not too bad.
They cleaned him up very good and showed us how to as well. We have to clean him up and put medicine on him and wrap with gauze 2x a day right now.
We have to go to clinicals there on Friday where they will see how well he's healing. This is when they will determine if he will need skin graphing done. They truly don't think he's going to need any of that or surgery based on what they saw. But won't know till Friday.
We will determine from there how much longer he will need to be wrapped up.Maddox is 5 1/2 months, so you can only imagine what he's been going through. For those who showed up at the hospital and those who prayed throughout the entire thing, thank you. He's really recovering okay. He needs to take tylenol with codeine 1/2 hr. prior to his cleanings because of the pain it causes.

He slept very well his first night. Got up at 1:30 and 6:45, and no crying in the meantime. We are praying for quick recovery for our little guy and we will need you all to help out as well. The picture Garrett took on his phone is attached of the top of his hand. It was much more red than the pic shows.I just burst into tears at Children's when the nurse unwrapped the gauze. It was so devastating to watch. You never want your children to be in pain. It was aweful.
From the time we got to the hospital he was all smiles. He hadn't had medicine, bottle...nothing. Everyone was wondering how he was so happy with what had just happened. He's in good spirits.

Please just pray for him. He's such a trooper through everything and we hope he stays this way.

Illnesses this past week

Maddox had his 2nd ear infection. He was put on Amoxicilin on Monday and on Friday wasnt' any better. We took him back to the doc. who said his ears were worse. Great huh? So, now he's on omnicef. That seems to work wonders for him.
Carson had a fever last week too, but that has broken and he's doing much better.
Maddox is rolling over and blowing bubbles.
He has cut BOTH of his bottom teeth. I can't even believe it. He's 21 weeks today. They grow up so fast.
I will attach pics when we get the virus off our computer at home. I'm working on this here at work with no pictures on this computer.
Everyone is finally better this week. After many sleepless nights this past week, it's going to be very nice to get back on track again.