Another ? about IV Scars

mcdev

Since so many of our babies have these scars, I'm just wondering if they all look the same. ?Keira's look like loose wrinkly patches of skin.

lstaylor73

Evan's is just a small bump under the skin on the inside of his leg in the calf area.  It will probably be unnoticeable by they time they are tweens.

preemieparent

Olivia's scars from her gtube/fundo surgery look like wrinkly spots - it's from where they went in laproscopically. 

She also has the tiny bumps on the tops of her hands..  

She also has scars from where they put the leads on, etc.  She has a perfect circle scar on the inside of one leg and near her collarbone on one side.  One of her IVs perforated and I guess the nurse didn't drain it properly so she has some raised skin about halfway up her calf.  That one isn't as noticeable as she gets bigger but you can definitely feel it.  And then of course the PDA scar.

I'm hoping as she gets older they will be reminders of how hard she had to fight just to make it.

Dominic has a scar under his nose from the CPAP machine.   He also has a little bit of raised skin that I think was from a lead - it's on his stomach.

NotJustAnAuntie

Max actually doesn't have any IV scars that I've found, but we think his ear shape is from the canula tubes... they pretty dramatically indent in the middle where the tubes sat for so long.

TriciaJoy

Robbie's are all like little white/flesh colored dots. Except his G tube scar which is sort of hard and sunken in.