Phoenix is scheduled for surgery this morning at 8am. We were originally told they were hoping to reduced the Gastroschisis enough so that they could close him up by this past Friday. We were told Wednesday they didn’t think it would reduce enough by Friday and that they were going to shoot middle of next week. Yesterday when my mother stopped by the hospital they had already reduced it enough to remove the silo and schedule the surgery for today.
It was almost a bit odd to see him last night without the silo being suspended above his belly. It still amazes me how much of his intestines were outside his body. It was a bit of a shock when I first saw him with the silo in place. I knew what to expect, but the swelling of the intestines made them look huge in the silo.
Yesterday, my boy looked much better.
I cannot wait to hold him.
