Ian Wilson and Burn Patient Post-Op
Tra Vinh, Vietnam - Ian Wilson, Webster Fellow and plastic surgeon: This is Huynh and I after her successful surgery. The bandage around her neck is a brace to keep her chin from falling onto her chest. It has been stuck there for so long that she needs time to regain the muscle capacity to keep her head up. As I noted in a previous post about Hunyh and burn patients in general, we cannot do much to make her scars go away, but we can have a big impact on her functionality. It is hard for me to imagine going through life with my chin stuck to my chest, and now Hunyh will only have to deal with that daily tribulation in her memories.