Skin Graft

After the stress and pain of Christmas and New Year we returned to AH on 2nd January 2009. He was immediately put on a Morphine IV for the pain. Mr Liew came to see him as he had a dressing change and decided that it had broken down so badly that now was the time to do a skin graft. He would also remove some of the birthmark.

He had this done along with another two blood transfusions later in the week. He went home after the first dressing change and returned the following Tuesday. This time infection had taken hold in the new skin and he actually looked like a shark had attacked him. There was a hollow in his side and the grafted area was very wet. He was admitted again and stayed in for a month having a small amount of laser and several dressing changes under general anesthetic. Eventually quite a lot of the graft did take. Right: Fox after graft and first dressing change.

He returned home in mid February, again to go back every Tuesday after that. Right: Infection attacking new graft.