5) Time for some plastic surgery...

On January 30, 2000 ( also Bryan's 23rd birthday) the sutures ripped on Wil's silo. His liver kind of 'popped' out as a result (I have the picture but thought it would be too much for most people). Wil's abdomen is too small and the omphalocele is too big, what shall we do now? His surgeons joined forces with plastic surgery and they made some magic! The next day they placed appligraph over his omphalocele. They also made his stoma for his ileostomy. Within days the skin graft started to take! February 7th Wil had surgery again and this time the second skin graft ' alloderm' was placed on the omphalocele. The pictures on the top were taken on January 31st and the two pics on the bottom were taken on February 23rd. In the fourth picture you can see the pink edges on the outside of the graft, that is where the new skin is growing in. He will have new skin buds come through the alloderm and his skin will grow and attach itself and push the alloderm off. It's amazing how this works, but it really does work.