And we're done...

Isaiah is out of surgery now. Aaron texted and said that his temp. is up to 38.8 (about 102.0 F) and that he is so dehyrdrated that he is crying and he cannot make tears. He said that Isaiah is in a lot of pain right now. He is on the way to PICU.

Here is what happened-I just got off the phone with the surgeon, Dr. Grant. God love her...
The piece of graft that was going to be removed couldn't be. It was too scarred and too fibrous. It would have been too risky to try to remove it at this point. Also, he had some sort of small hole or leak where the intestine was connected to the colon. There was a bunch of pus inside his belly, so there was infectious material that the drain didn't get out of his abdomen. Again, too risky to try to get it all out, so there is another drain for that (jp drain).

So now he has a drain from the duodenum, a drain from the stomach and a drain from the abdomen. He will come home with two of these. He also got a new temporary triple lumen to go along with the single lumen, so he has two central lines. Before he goes home he will get a new double lumen to replace the two lines. She did say that his liver is still soft. It's enlarged from the TPN, but at least its not all hard and fibrosed. Still planning to list in a couple of months.

Now, the task is for him to survive recovery and get him home to his mama. We've got a long road ahead of us and the journey is just beginning. Praise God, my boy is alive!!!!