So on Thursday James had his surgery. It lasted over 2 hours and everything went great. We are thankful to The Lord for allowing the surgery to be a success and that there were no complications!
Recovery has been a little challenging since his throat is still very sore from the respirator and surgery, which makes him very fussy while he eats or coughs. His heart results came back clear for the most part, he has a hole in between two chambers of his heart, and he has a larger than normal main vein leaving his heart, but nothing of major concern.
His only lingering issue is the fact he has problems swallowing his food without some going into his lungs. He had a swallow test done and after thickening his milk and laying him on his side to eat it has improved as quite a bit. We just have to be extra careful the next few weeks to keep him from getting pneumonia. If all goes as planned we should be discharged on Sunday (Lord willing!)
James and his favorite nurse Savannah at his swallow test.
Getting ready for surgery in pre-op
Surgical team coming to get our little man
Getting breathing treatment just after surgery
AND we officially took up coffee drinking thanks to no sleep...4 creamers and 4 sugars for every half cup...tastes great!
The kids came up to see James (and mommy and daddy). Jonathan was being...a brat!
Having his EKG done.
James looks so sweet in the first picture! We are praying for a totally recovery for James! I'm sorry y'all had to start drinking coffee! Hopefully you will not continue in that terrible habit;). Sorry Jonathan was being a brat! I remember Joseph struggling when we were in with Caleb. Its hard when Mommy & Daddy are not the ones caring for the children.... Training kinda gets kicked into top gear for a while once the parents get home;). Wow he sure does have a lot of tubes for his EKG totally different from an adult... We love y'all and will continue to be prayo g for you<3
ReplyDeleteAww, glad the kiddos got to come up and see y'all. I can't wait to hear the news that y'all are headed home! Praying for him and all of you!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad that James' surgery was a success, and Lord-willing he'll heal and get stronger every day. So, y'all become adults now and drink coffee?! :) I always thought when I was little that if you drank coffee that you were all mature and grown up! I'm glad that you found something to help the no sleep , and don't think it's bad at all, just teasing ya!
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