9/29/26 - a long day, but good day at the burn clinic

9/28- 

Leah spent most of the morning playing outside on “her” new deck. It was a tremendous blessing to let her be out there knowing it was a safe and clean space. No more rickety old unstable stairs.  We truly believe breathing fresh air and sunshine is so good for her.  

This afternoons burn clinic appointment was her best one. They continue to be impressed with her healing. Huge praise—the skin graft fold that we thought was going to need trimming today was totally gone! Her palm looks good. Her left arm no longer requires dressings. This is going to take some getting used to on her part and ours. It still looks so raw and red but all it needs now is lots and lots of moisture. The same is true of her donor sites. Her right ankle graft looks so good that they don’t even think that she will need the compression ankle bootie that they were expecting to make. Her right arm is still requiring dressings as her wrist is still not healed but it’s significantly less than what we have been using. So some pretty huge improvements have been made and we now keep things clean, continue to bath off the dead skin and lotion, lotion, lotion.  

The biggest concern is that Leah’s right pinky finger is beginning to have small contractures in both joints. Her little pinky required grafting and the grafting is pulling the finger forward. Unfortunately this means that she has some additional stretches that will be uncomfortable for her but we have to get that skin to loosen and stop pulling the finger forward. They added to her night time and nap time braces to help that time also continue to stretch all those fingers.  

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