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.

Getting a true mohawk (Act 1 of a close shave)

Since Jack Henry got sidewalled due to a new IV site, he has finished his need for IVs as he is getting all of his nutrition through breastmilk and now fortified breastmilk.



Interesting fact: breastmilk contains 20 calories per ounce (30 ccs or 30 mls in an ounce). Fortification can add 20% to 50% more calories. Currently, Jack Henry is getting 20% fortification which brings his calories up to 24 calories per ounce.


As he is getting fed 28 ccs per feeding, the math says that he is getting 180 calories per day due to his eight feedings (every three hours). That's barely a couple of french fries, right?



In any case, without the need for IV sites, we are moving forward with cleaning up the bad haircut from before.



It's been funny to get loads and loads of advice on how to clean up the haircut. No, we didn't put a poll on the blog for it since it would be non-binding anyway. :)

Yet, the doctors and nurses were encouraging us to go full-blown mohawk (notice that there's no faux in the description). Apparently, this is a common option. Another choice is to let the patch grow in, but there's no guarantee there in terms of when it will come in. So behind door #3 is the full monty, er, shave. We'll have to see where we end up...


FYI - Elaine got the final decision, but she was tolerant to let her first husband (i.e. the current one) to have a bit of fun along the way. Muchas gracias to the two Nurse Ashleys for doing the haircutting without a drop of blood. No nickes, scratches or cuts - pretty darn impressive!

First haircut, first faux-hawk

Jack Henry's first haircut with the spike in the forehead lead to his first styling of hair.

Nurse Amy welcomed his haircut of the area between his eyebrows and hairline by saving his hair and incorporating it in the cute sign below. Yes, if you notice the description of where his hair was cut, essentially his forehead was shaved. I suppose this counts as a first haircut, but it does sound like a de-monkey-ifcation of my son. :)


As most of the nurses are multi-talented such as Nurse Amy's sign above or Nurse Kelli's sign, Nurse Ashley (one of the many nurses named Ashley) has a fall back job in the event that the whole nursing thing doesn't quite work out.


Yes, yes, Mr. Jack Henry got to use a little bit of product and he was styling. He was all rico sauve with his spikey hair as he could especially pull the look together when curled his lip.


And he's definitely singing for us like a rockstar with the new 'do!

We definitely know where to go to get future cuts!