Thought everyone might want an update on Thomas' surgery. Well, it was on Tuesday morning, today is Friday night, and I am glad to report he is doing pretty good now. It has not been without our share of scary moments though.
He went through the operation fine, everything went very well he performed like a champ. In fact after they got him out he was on no support for his heart, it was beating well on its own, and they were expecting to take the ventilator out in a matter of hours. Well as many of you know thats when things got worse.
Thomas had to be put on a box that would beat his heart for him, and had to be kept seditated and have a machine breath for him also. It made for some verylong stressful days and nights for mom and dad.
Last night his heart was able to take back over and beat on it's own again, and this afternoon they removed his breathing tube. That was pretty stressful for him because they had to take him off his pain meds for a while to ensure he would breath on his own and not be too relaxed. Three hours later he and us are finally calmed down and getting to breathe. We hope he just keeps improving and he doesn't have to be here much longer, soon they claim they'll be able to pull his chest tube and then some of the IVs (which now number 9 down from their high of 12) can start to come out. We'll hope for that sooner rather than later.
Right now we just want what's best for Thomas. He's still a little horse from having those tubes down his throat for the past four days, but hopefully within a few hours that will be gone too and he'll finally get to have something to eat again for the first time in a long time.
We took some pictures, but I don't have a way of uploading them here, as soon as I do, I will. Thanks for all your thoughts, prayers, text messages, flowers, and everything else you do for us.
Love,
Paul, Julie, and especially Thomas
We started this blog to let our family and friends know what we are up to and how we are doing while we are away. We published pictures from our big adventure in North Dakota, and tried and keep you in the loop. Now that we are in Arizona for the forseeable future and being away has become more permanent, we wanted to continue to post pictures of our new life here and the new people in it. If there is anything you want to know or see, just let us know. Love, Paul, Julie, & Baby Thomas
2 comments:
Thanks for posting the update. We will keep him in our prayers. I can't imagine how hard it would be to have to watch your baby go through all of that.
Thanks for taking the time to update us, we all know you are busy and stressed. We are so glad that Thomas did well and pray that he will continue to heal and get stronger so he can go home. And we hope that you guys take some time when you can to get away and have some time to yourself to de-stress.
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