Thursday, July 29, 2010

Recovery Update- Morning 7/29

I’m happy to report that Matthew had a good night last night. The pain meds administered through the pump gave him relief so that he could sleep. We got a 4 hour stretch and a few small spurts of sleep throughout the night.

The surgical resident came by this morning and her first words were “he looks a lot better than last night”. And she is right…though he is connected to 3 tubes (IV, catheter, NG) and a wire (heart rate & pulse ox) and that in itself makes him look pretty sad.

The x-ray indicated that he doesn’t have any blockages, it is just that his bowels haven’t woken up yet. The surgical resident thinks it could still be another day or two. Matthew’s surgeon indicated that this is not uncommon when they touch the bowels and as he has said, they touched every square inch of them. For now, they are intending to keep the NG tube in pumping the contents of his stomach out and we’ll wait for his bowels to wake up.

The radiologist read something else on the x-ray dealing with his hip that they want to have examined by orthopedics. I’m not sure how they could uncover anything they didn’t find in the bone scan done 5 months ago, but while we are here we should make sure. I don’t think adding this particular other doctor adds a day to our stay, but it sounded like a day (or days) had already been added when Matthew’s bowels continued to sleep through the night.

I’m hopeful that today will be eventful in a whole different way than the past two days, in that his bowels will wake up and we are able to feed him. As parents who have been concerned about weight and feedings, it is hard to know Matthew hasn’t had anything in the last 48 hours. I asked about a nutritive IV but they usually wait until day 3-5 for that. I’m hoping that it doesn’t come to that. I pray today is the day…wake up baby bowels!

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