Jonas!

Today Jonas had a checkup at the Schriner's hospital in SLC. There is a burn Doctor there that is "semi retired" and is the Dr. that has trained all of Jonas' previous Doctors. he is not taking any patients but had an interest in Jonas' case so he took it on so we wouldn't have to travel to Sacramento California anymore! So that is really exciting and quite a blessing for us!



This Dr. is quite an amazing guy and quite honestly opened my eyes today in unfortunately a horrifying way! Every Dr. in the past has painted a rose colored picture for me as far as the condition and the future of Jonas' burns. In all honesty what I expected from today's visit was the Dr. just to check up on his and to tell me that in the future (meaning 3 years or more) that he would need some grafting done or even just z plasty again. Unfortunately that is not what happened.

Jonas will have a skin graft done October 27 under his right arm pit. He will be in the hospital for a week afterwards and then will have a cast on that arm for 7 weeks. His arm will be straight out to the side which to me seems like torture. As soon as that is done they are going to do the same thing to the left side. Then will possibly move on to one of his ankles and his thigh. He then told me that contrary to what I have been told in the past that this will be happening more frequently as he is now growing so much now.

This has quite honestly taken most of the day for me to digest. I have had some of the worst flashbacks today that I would have cared to never relive. It completely breaks my heart that my little sweetheart has to go through this again but now at an age where he knows what is going on. So for now we are taking one day at a time and we are just going to enjoy life and have tons of fun! Once the end of October hits I guess it time to buckle down and endure to the end of the process.