Colton had surgery this morning for his tracheostomy and feeding tube. He also had a nissen fundoplication done. See more about that Here. He did very well during the surgery. The surgery was supposed to be done laproscopically, but when the surgeon went to try to move Colton's liver it didn't cooperate like it was supposed to so he had to make a bigger incision and open Colton's belly to do the surgery. The surgery went great from there on out. The entire surgery took about 2 hours to do. When Colton got back to his room he was very sleepy. They put him on a fentanyl drip to help control his pain. He pretty much slept the whole day until about 7 pm when he started to wake up a little bit and get his characteristic scrunched face and kicking his leg.
Now we are going to try to see if we can get Colton off of the ventilator or at least get him on the lowest settings that we can. In a couple of days we will start Colton back on feedings and hopefully get him off of his IV fluids. We are hoping that we can get him home in the next week or two. We have been working to get set up for home care and get all of his equipment in order. We are sure the first couple of weeks when he comes home are going to be full of adjustment and changes, but we can't wait to have our baby home.
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