Sam update

Just a quick update on Sam.

Since the surgery on Tuesday he has not made alot of progress.  He is still dealing with things that Sarah never even dealt with after her surgery.  

He has an NG tube that is constantly running with bile being suctioned out.  It has decreased a little today but he should have been off it by now (Sarah never even had a NG tube)  There has been much bowel sounds.  He did poop a kittle on Thursday with some meds.  Today he was up for 4 hours in the wheelchair.  And he pooped with no meds!  But the doctors don't get as excited about poop as we do since his blockage was high up.  

Thursday was pretty grim I will be honest  was very afraid for Sam.  At that point he had made zero progress and there was talk about him going back in to surgery.  Instead of crying I get mad!  I read his surgical notes and grilled the surgeon.  Bless his heart he was nice.  My fear is a resident/intern being involved and making mistakes.  That happened to me during Steve's 's birth and I have issues to this day from mistakes made.  But I feel that everything was done correctly.  

We began getting him out of bed on Thursday, he has a huge scar probably 7 inches but he doesn't seen to be bothered so much by pain of the incision. Thursday he was only up 30 minutes and wanted to go back to bed.  Today he was up for 4 hours and didn't want to go back to bed. 

Right now our prayer is that he has no more bile to be suctioned.  His output today was about 1100ml- that's alot.  He did poop today with no meds so that was really good.  He has not eaten since last Monday morning and that was only sips of soup.  The doctors aren't as excited about the poop because the blockage was so high up there was obviously poop in his system that could be expelled that has nothing to do with the blockage which wasn't really a blockage caused by poop if that makes sense.  

The gastro doctor wants to do a upper GI to check on things and to see if the blockage is still there.  The surgeon is considering a TPN line  that will give him nutrition.  TPN lines are way above my pay grade and nothing I've ever dealt with nor do I want to!!!~

By this point of Sarah's recovery we were home......

He gets a bed bath daily and his hair washed.  He loves it

yes i push him around some....

light machine

my foot....

These past few weeks have been stressful!  I'm not feeling very spiritual- I'm tired- so much medical drama.  Our caregiver has some medical problems in her family too and I'm worried about having to leave to go home to care for Sarah or bring her here.  I so wish I had not had foot surgery.  It's really made things 100% times harder.  I'm not in pain but I can not drive.  I'm really about a half second from just taking the darn thing off and hoping for the best!  UGH!

Thanks for your prayers and kind words!