Your love, Lord, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies. Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, your justice like the great deep. You, Lord, preserve both people and animals. How priceless is your unfailing love, O God! People take refuge in the shadow of your wings. - Psalm 36:5-7
I apologize for not giving an update until now. My hubby is telling me that I shouldn't feel pressured to update the blog everyday, but I know how many of you appreciate the updates so like I've said before I'll definitely do it when I get a moment!
It was a long day with a hungry fussy babe, Logan would suck his fingers, more like practically eat his fingers constantly while crying while I held him close and rocked him all day. When he would finally fall asleep if you tried to lay him down he'd start all over again. Adam & I thought if he doesn't get in for surgery today, how are we going to make it through this again tomorrow? Logan would look at me with big tears in his eyes as if to say, "You big meanie! Why won't you feed me?" - he's adorable and it made me sad that he was sad. You certainly can't reason with a 4 month old! We were quite shocked to find out at 2pm this afternoon that Logan was first on the list for surgery. We are unsure of how we got so lucky to be first, but we were thrilled and so thankful for this answer to prayer! Logan finally got in for surgery around 4:45pm and he was out within an hour. We then waited in recovery waiting for him to wake up. He was very groggy and quite sad when he awoke, I felt quite important as mommy was the only one he wanted, or at least I was the only one who could soothe him. :) The nurses said Logan did great! He came out of sedation fairly quickly and we were back up in our room around 6:15pm. I would have updated sooner, however Logan's been in a bit of pain so he's been snuggling in my arms all night. We also had some surprise last minute visits from family members. It was great to have some company!
Logan will have some pain from the incision where the gtube was inserted for the next day or 2, after that he should be fine! He is on tylenol around the clock right now, but if he is really fussy tonight we gave the nurses permission to just give him morphine. He may also be fussy because he still has had nothing to eat. They have to wait until 24 hours after surgery before they allow him to eat. We will start with pedialyt through the gtube, then move to half pedialyt/half formula and work him up to his regular formula feeds. Once he does well with that we will give it to him orally and see how he does. This will give us the real idea if the botox actually worked or not, we are really hoping it has worked! If the siting stays clean with no sign of infection and Logan seems to be vomiting less & eating well then we will talk about a possible discharge on Sunday or Monday. There is a light at the end of the tunnel! That's briefly all I know for now. Dr. Brill & Dr. Bailey (who took Dr. Flagyl's place) had to run after surgery so they will take more time tomorrow to go over some things with us and teach us a little bit about how life will be with the gtube for Logan and what their plan is for him now.
Thank-you for all your continued support & prayers today. Obviously Adam & I believe that Logan was and always is safe in the arms of our Heavenly Father, that truly is a comfort that we can't deny! However I don't believe it is ever easy watching your little ones have to go for surgery - infact the surgeon told me that if I had no emotion at all when we said good-bye she'd wonder what's wrong with me! (So if you are ever in this position that we were in don't feel bad for getting all emotional - its perfectly normal!) I definitely shed some tears when I kissed our little man goodbye, but I walked away with a peace & comfort knowing that he was in the care of our loving Saviour. {I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits, and in his word I put my hope. - Psalm 130:5}
We are also so thankful that our cries & prayers were heard & the Lord answered us! Praising God for answers!!
"Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. - Ephesians 3:20-21
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