I didn’t write anything about this earlier because I just didn’t have the time, but Gabriel had his follow-up surgery on December 21st. Things went well. In fact, I’m just going to use the text from Robyn’s email to give the details for posterity:<\/p>\n
Gabriel is home and doing well. I fed him a bottle at 3:00a.m. to get him through and he was actually taken in to surgery about 30 minutes early (around 9:40a.m.), so that was kind of nice, so we weren’t hanging around all day. Don got to be with him when they put the mask on his face to put him to sleep. Then they took Don out and did the IV and started surgery. It took a little over an hour and went very smoothly. He didn’t bleed as badly this time and she said she would be VERY surprised if he ever needed another surgery for this again. They tested it by forcing water at a high pressure through the catheter and there were no leaks, so it looks promising. After the surgery, they let me go in first to be with him and he was totally inconsolable. He still had the IV, electrodes on his chest and the oxygen thingie on his toe. He was crying so hard. He took his bottle for me like a champ and they gave him some good drugs, but he still cried hard. They then brought Don in and he went to Don and calmed down a little. They went to flush his IV and it was blocked, so they took it out, at which point he calmed down a bit more. They gave him some bladder spasm meds and that probably helped a bit too. Now he’s on an antibiotic, bladder spasm med and tylenol with codeine. He also has a catheter for at least 12 days. Ugh. He’s behaving pretty normally and was playing earlier, so that is a good sign. He just fell asleep in Don’s arms after screaming like a crazy person. I think he had a bladder spasm and he can’t have the meds again until 8p.m. \ud83d\ude41 I hope the pains pass soon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
He’s still doing well. He doesn’t seem to be experiencing any pain for the last couple of days, but he [b]has[\/b] been really, really needy – always wanting to be held and in touching distance. It’s very sad as we can’t hold him all the time, obvisouly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I didn’t write anything about this earlier because I just didn’t have the time, but Gabriel had his follow-up surgery on December 21st. Things went well. In fact, I’m just going to use the text from Robyn’s email to give … Continue reading