Going bald! (Act 2 of a close shave)

Jack Henry's mohawk lasted all of a few minutes. It will interesting years from now if he posts picturs of himself getting another mohawk... let's hope not.

Now, a father-son moment that you are privy too...

Son, if you are reading this entry twenty years from now and thinking about rebelling with a mohawk or robotic appendage or piercing in your skull (whatever the future may hold), let me rule out the head shave. You are a handsome young man, but let's just agree that you're head isn't shave worthy. If you go naturally bald, then so be it. Yet, if you are thinking about shaving down to a mohawk or shaving it all off, trust me, you will quickly lose your status as the ladies man. Try to rebel with the robotic appendage - that would be cool and useful!

Without further ado, my son's head is shaved (gently though)...






... and yes, we did keep his hair and, no, you can't have it to make a voodoo doll.

They're sucking his brains out!

Exciting headlines grab attention, don't they?!?


In fact, what you are looking at is an IV site in the scalp. While Jack Henry still needs an IV to supplement his breastmilk feeds, the choice of IV sites rotates between the arms, legs and scalp.

Generally, a vein can be found in either of the arms or legs, but unfortuanately in preemies, these sites don't last very long (1 to 2 days) until a vein is blown. Additionally, these blown IV sites take a week or so to heal so then the Stick-team (i.e. the transport nurses who could thread spaghetti through a tick's teeth) is asked to come in to start looking for the sites around and under the hairline.

Although it looks like in the picture above that the IV is in his brain, it is right below the skin. (We may use this as an excuse later when Jack Henry acts like a goober as he gets older.)

The big trick in this IV site is that they have shave the site first. Fortunately, they only had to shave the area between his eyebrows and foreward so no reverse mohawk for him today. Ha!