Baby Elien the Alien!
Baby Elien is an orange and purple alien just the right size to cuddle against a human chest. But over the years his skin had thinned, he'd lost weight, and his eyes had cracked, and he needed help. Here are some of his diagnosis photos:
The initial treatment plan was to open him up, remove his stuffing, and fully line him, keeping some of his older scarring (which told his story of his time on earth), but recover his eyes in fabric (thereby restoring his vision) and replacing his antennae. This particular alien is aquaphobic, so no spa for him. :-)
First step, lining, is not photogenic, but you can see a bit of his lining as his heart was installed with part of his original stuffing:
Next his scars were minimized, antennae in stalled, and eyes recovered. Here are his first chubbiness approval pics:
If you zoom in, you'll see he still has some scarring around his tummy patch. At this point, his person opted to minimize that scarring too. So here he is after that one last surgery, ready to fly home (just a short hop down the coast, not all the way to his planet of origin).
His person wrote: He looks amazing! Thank you so much.
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