Friday wasn’t entirely horrible until around 5pm. Jaydon’s doctor
called to discuss the next surgery. We had a nice little chat about Jaydon, how
he’s taking everything and how we feel he will do moving forward. Honestly,
Jaydon is getting cabin fever as I said in my last post. He’s already telling
people what will be happening next. The doctor said he felt that they needed to
do the more indepth surgery because of the extreme urine output we are consistently
seeing.
What this means is the day before the surgery, we will go in
and Jaydon will get a GI tube. The tube will help pump liquid through &
clean out his intestines. The surgery itself will be approximately 6 hours.
They will be removing part of his intestine to augment his bladder (make
bigger). They will also take either another part of his intestine or part of
his appendix to create a shunt, tube, or stoma. This will be used as a catheter
path so that Jaydon can catheterize himself.
Following the surgery, we will be in the hospital for at
least 4 days. The average is 4-10 days with an average of 7.
Obviously, with 5 kids, creatures, jobs and a myriad of
other things going on, this is not an ideal situation. I have some ideas that should
make creature care easier. It’s just a matter of getting everything implemented
before the surgery. Although we don’t have a date as of yet, we SHOULD have
more information sometime this week.
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