The helmet....camo style

Well, it finally arrived. 

The Helmet.

We went to pick it up and Mason's head got measured a bit more and the ear cutouts got personalized for him but once it was all set we plopped it on his head and out the door we went! well, after Aidan played around with my sunglasses while waiting, and got some new stickers from the Orthotist for his truck.

Oh and when he put the helmet on Mason at the office for the first time Aidan stated that "now Mason can ride a bike outside!" Yup, I can't make this stuff up!

You have to gradually increase the time you wear it each day to let the scalp and skin adjust to it properly, and to make sure the fit is alright.

Mason has excema and super sensitive skin so they told me I could go slower than the written out plan, so that's what I did.

By the time we got to him wearing it the full 23 hours a day and to bed for 2 nights in a row he had developed something akin to a blister across the side of his forehead that has the bulge that the helmet is supposed to fix.

I slightly freaked yesterday after work when I took it off to let his head air out for a bit (it can get pretty sweaty and gross under there, poor buddy) and saw the giant red mark, and it felt squishy, like a giant blister! I left it off right then and there and then this am I called and we got in in the afternoon to have them do some more adjustments.

Unfortunately now though because of the texture that was created by grinding out some of the inside to make it push less against his forehead, he put some smooth tape across the spots where he had to grind it inside so it does;t rub on his skin. The tape extends out over the front outside of the helmet and boy does it look GHETTO.

White tape against brown and green camo? Extremely obvious.

The he also did some sort of heat treatment on one side too because it was pushing and causing a bad red mark in one spot, and we were afraid he was going to develop a pressure ulcer there. So now the pattern looks all scratched off on one side too.

The orthotist joked that now it looks like a battle helmet.

As if he didn't look weird enough with it on, right? ARGH!

Although I did make a Christmas card with this picture on it (taken before the helmet was altered to look terrible)  for the orthotist and brought it to him today, and he thought it was great. Asked if he could hang it up at the office, haha!