Gruesome pictures of Jace's leg... not for the weak of heart!

The kids constantly asked for pictures of Jace's leg while we were away. Personally I think they are kind of sick. Though I surprised myself and was able to handle watching all of the medical procedures they performed on his leg without losing my cookies. I am amazed at what they can do to a body. Our friend had the finger that he lost minus the bone sewed to the back of his finger for later use. Jace said that every doctor, every nurse, every EMT were positive and helpful except one doctor who, while he was in extreme pain tried to lecture him about guns. He told her that he did not want to hear it yet she tried to continue. He was hurting badly and finally told her that he would not, and did not have to listen to her rantings and that doctors killed more people than guns did! (that's my boy!!!)

Mostly his leg just looked fake. Like something you would see on ER knowing that it was all made up. It was interesting to see the muscle flex or have spasms... literally the muscle, outside of his leg! It looked plastic.

The first morning after the initial surgery his leg was just wrapped up a lot, and was oozing and bleeding but they said that was normal.
We told Jace he didn't make a very attractive drug addict... he was pretty out of it most of the time, on what he lovingly called his Dalai Lama drug. We told him that we could use his pictures to discourage drug use because he looked so funny and talked in a high pitched voice and laughed at the funniest stuff! This is Jace with his Build a Bear named Kinikini! He was mad when he found out we took the picture, he said a Build a Bear is appropriate if he was 8... but not 21! :) It was more for our entertainment, not for his comfort!

This is what the fasciotomies look like...not pretty, looks like a shark bite!

Then they were able to sew up the outside and part of the inside... and then put the wound vac on... and the entrance wound is still open, they want it to heal up on it's own.