Surgery Tomorrow

It's been a long day with Logan. He just was not a happy camper with this iv he has to have. With his one free hand & his mouth he managed to work at his other hand so much that he eventually pulled the tape, tacaderm & gauze off and pulled his iv out. He was bound and determined since last night to get that thing out, and it may have taken until 4pm this afternoon to get it out...but he did it, and he was satisfied when he managed to pull it off. "Determined, Strong-willed & Stubborn - three words that describe Logan perfectly" I said to our nurse. She laughed, they honestly can't believe how much of a stinker he is. Our nurse said 3 other words for Logan would be - Smiley, Happy & Fighter. How can you deny that? Man I love that kid. He's got so much spunk and it's gotten him far in the short 4 months of his life already! God made Logan a fighter for a reason, so thankful for that!

We have Logan's name on the surgery board...yay! I can't believe how quick this is all happening (definitely wasn't expecting that!) Tomorrow general surgery will be taking patient's between 3pm-8pm for surgeries. Logan's name is on the list and it goes in priority sequence. As long as things go smoothly then he should be having the surgery tomorrow. The only setback would be if someone in hospital or that comes through the E.R. needs an emergancy procedure/surgery done. That means they would be a higher priority and Logan would be bumped, which make his odds for getting in a little lower. Once they start the surgeries tomorrow at 3pm our nurse can go get an idea how far down the list we are. I'm trying to be hopeful that we will get him in tomorrow, but at the same time trying to not be too excited quite yet if we get let down again. If it doesn't work tomorrow, they'll try again on Thurs, then Fri, etc until we can get him in. We are praying that he gets in sooner then later. Once the botox injections are finished they will insert the gtube while Logan is still under aenestetic. When he wakes up they will not allow him to take formula right away, he'll be on pediatlyt for the first few hours for sure to make sure he can tolerate it and that the gtube is in the correct place & doing what it should. He will also most likely be in pain for the first 24hrs (the stomach will be tender). They will give him tylenol around the clock to help with the pain and hopefully by day 2 he shouldn't feel a thing. If he's taking the bottle orally with minimal to no spitting then we are good to go home! We'll refrain from getting super excited quite yet and takes things one day at a time.

Logan will go NPO (no food passes orally) as of midnight tonight. Please pray for MUCH patience tomorrow as Logan will be one hungry, miserable bear. He's gone 18 hours without food once before and when he wakes up and he's hungry he shows his angry side - let me tell you, its no fun! We will have to grin & bear it, trying to calm him as best as possible until they can get him in for surgery. The reason he has to be fasting so long is because his stomach doesn't empty very fast at all. They need to make sure he has a completely empty stomach before doing the procedure to avoid the risk of him vomitting up anything & choking during the surgery. He will continue to get i.v. fluids, but other then that we can't give him anything. Hence why I am finishing this up and heading to bed for the night. I need all the strength I can get to deal with mr. cranky pants tomorrow! ;)

As nervous as we are, we are also so excited to finally be moving ahead with actually doing something to help Logan. It's funny how once they have an actual diagnosis things move along quickly, but until then you move at such a slow pace and you have to push to get anything done. Thankful for answers & thankful for God's continued care for Logan.

We'll try our best to let you know how things go tomorrow, if I don't get a chance I'll ask Kathleen to briefly fill you all in! Night all.