Friday Night

Well, we are up here in Dizzy's room, just hangin out with the little guy. He is doing pretty well tonight. He gave us a couple of scares today, so we are hoping that is over with and now on to recovery. The surgeon came in after his surgery and said that as soon as they had gotten into his tummy area they found an adhesion wrapped around his bowels (don't ask me!?) he said it was about 14 inches long and described it as a 'banjo string'. He said as soon as he saw that he knew that they had to be in there, it was definately a life-threatening issue, and the Dr. was surprised that the blood flow wasn't already cut off. Needless to say, the reflux surgery became secondary for a moment. They fixed his bowels and they seemed satisfied with that. The reflux surgery didn't go quite as planned, but they were able to address the issue. Then Dizzy let the Dr's know that he was done being operated on and gave everyone a scare, but he pulled out of it on his own just before they put him on the Heart-Lung Bypass. Then he stabilized pretty well. the only other issue occurred around 4pm. His blood pressure dropped real low, the staff here figured out what the problem was and addressed it successfully. Ever since then he has been stable and steady. He needs to be pretty sedated for now just so he doesn't move around too much. But we are praying for a nice, UN-eventful night (Andrew! don't make me come up there!) and a solid, speedy recovery. Sorry it's so late for the update, but it has been a busy 'up and down' day. Thank you all for your prayers, thoughts, and support. We will post tomorrow after-noonish with a good report.