Monday, November 7, 2011

holy stinky cheese head!

Everyone told me that Donato's head was going to smell with his new doc band on, but boy oh boy! I couldn't of imagined the smell! It smells like rotten cheese, so bad that you can smell him if you just walk by. People who don't know are going to think I'm a horrible, mother who doesn't bathe her kid. He is super sweaty to begin with and now with the band on, it's even worse. I didn't know little babies could sweat so badly. He even got heat rash so we are taking a break, but tomorrow if the rash is gone, the band goes back on and so continues the stinky cheese head!

I am so thankful that we are doing this in the winter months, because if this was summer time we would have a real problem. Oh and the stares are back. But this time I don't mind them. A nice mother and son came to our table last night to say hello. Her son had a helmet 6 years ago when they were less popular. It's nice to have someone who can relate to what you're going through. I should of asked her about the stinky cheese head.


Thursday, November 3, 2011

Cutest crash hat ever....











We got our Doc Band today! Donato doesn't seem to mind it all that much...yet. After we left Cranial Technologies we went right over to Signs By Tomorrow and had his band wrapped for free! They did an amazing job and never could of done this by myself! So thank you Victor from Signs By Tomorrow in Hawthrone, NJ!

We have to wear it three hours at a time, then remove it. I have to check if there is any redness and keep the band off until the redness goes away. Then starting on Saturday we will begin to wear the band 23/7 only taking it off for one hour a day to clean the band and give Doanto a bath.

We close the door on the cleft lip, for now and begin our Doc Band adventure. Never ever a dull moment!

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

no more stares


Tonight was the first time we went out as a family since Donato's surgery. It sounds strange, but it was weird that people weren't starring at us. We are so used to getting mad because people are looking at Donato's lip. But no more, it's over, we were just a regular family at Costco, no stares. It was nice.

This is a picture of Donato and his surgeon, Dr.Podda at his post-op visit today. Now that he took the tape of his nose we are a just a regular old family that no one cares to look at. I can get used to that!