two steps forward, one step back

So maybe that saying is supposed to go the other way around? Maybe? Maybe it's "one step forward, two steps back..."

But that's not completely true this week.

This gorgeous boy, with the residual cinnamon roll icing on his chin, had a post op visit yesterday.

And while everything "looks" great {yay!}, sweet baby has not healed well and now has a fistula {hole} where there should not be one.

That means that in about 4-6 months, his surgeon will take him back to the OR for {prayerfully} one last time to close it up and make things right.

And so we are a wee bit sad, but a lot bit happy.

Because the hardest part is behind him. And if the graft that was built will survive, that will make a third surgery for reconstruction worth it all.

Two steps forward, one step back. That's where we are this week.