November

Beginning of November, we had Gavin's blessing, NOV 1. So we had family in town. Then 2 weeks later, Luke's Court of Honor for his Eagle! We were so proud of him. So more family! It was fun!

November 3 i think, Gavin had his second and hop;efully last surgery!!!! He was so good. He couldn't nurse after midnight, so only got pedialyte from a bottle. we got there for his surgery around 7 am. He went in with the surgeons around 8 and was done and out the door around 10(i'll have to check the facts with Trevor, waited too long to write it down.). He did really well, they just went in and sewed up his two hernias that Dr. Fiore found during his first surgery to fix the Hirschsprung's (it was a dirty suergery involving the bowel system, so he didn't do both in the first surgery). He has two tiny scars down further , below his diaper from this and healed so quickly. It was wierd. They put him under and when i went back with him he was crying so strangely. It was very wierd. i could tell he wasn't himself at all. But about 30 minutes later he was acting more normal. i took the day off of work and was able to enjoy the day taking care of my baby and watching over him. The next day, i had to go back, but at least wonderful aunt Nini was there. she really is amazing for us.

all is good

The surgery went smoothly and he is back in the nicu recovering. I will write more tomorrow. Soo tired.

Surgery is happening!

Gavin's results came in and there were none of the "relaxing" nerves in the biopsy (which is the results we wanted so we knew that he has Hirschsprung's disease). He goes for surgery at 8 am today (Wednesday) and it will take about 3 hours. Please keep him in your prayers.

For the surgery, they will be cutting 3 small holes in his tummy. Two in his lower abdomen and one a little above his belly button. Then, they will stick in a scope and take a biopsy of the upper intestines to make sure the nerves are all in there (we are guessing because it would've been too high for the other biopsy to reach). The pathologist will be on hand to look at the samples and make sure that this part of his intestines are fine. Then, the surgeon will go in and remove almost all of the part without all of the necessary nerves (missing the relaxing nerves). He will be leaving a small part to sew the normal part back together. Then, they will sew him back together and he starts his recovery. The surgeon said that he can begin eating again after his first bowel movement, but we will wait and see what the PGI doctor says (pediatric gastro-intestinal). Then, about a week to recover. . . hopefully :).

Today was pretty nice. . . in a not normal way. Craig was able to go play at a friend's house and had so much fun! I went in and Gavin had a pretty good day. The nurse said he was sleeping most of the day! and almost the entire time I was there, he was pretty calm. Then, tonight, he was pretty fussy and the nurse was about to give him some "sweeties" (very simple sucrose that feels like a morphine shot), but he did calm back down.

We ended up having a Mormon nurse today! which was perfect since we ended up having my dad come down and give him a blessing. She let us have 4 people in for the couple of minutes. It was nice.