One week later:
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Sam is doing great. Here's a picture of his homecoming. (Welcome sign thanks to Janna, Emily, and Hannah.) The skin around the sutures on his belly is a little red, so it might be time to think about taking the sutures out. The glue on his chest incision is flaked off in one spot giving us a preview of the scar-- it's amazingly faint.



Most of the glue still has some betadine on it, so appears orange. There's still alot of adhesive residue on his skin from the bandages. Some bruises have appeared in the last day -- two are immediately above and to the left and right of the top of the chest incision. One is on his belly near one of the drain sites. When Sam is wearing a shirt, you would never guess that he had heart surgery just last week.