All is well now. The past 48 hours has been long and a little overwhelming. On Thursday Luke, my mom, and I left for Indianapolis to spend the night at my Dad's hotel. He had been in Indy all week due to work. We still hadn't heard from Riley about the time and other information about the surgery when we left. Ofcourse we couldn't have a normal trip to Riley, due to the help of some crazy person in the Riley emergency room. Apparently on Thursday around noon, something chemical spilled in a purse in the ER that led to people becoming sick, and actually coding. The lady that brought the fluids in is still in critical condition. To make a long story short, everything was delayed due to homeland security and the hospital being on lockdown for many hours. So when we did receive the call it was a good thing we had already left, because Luke's surgery was first at 7:30am and we needed to be there at 5:45am! Luke played that night in the big king sized bed and relaxed, unlike his mother.
It was rough the next morning letting the nurses take him back. My biggest fear was the anesthesia and the tube they were putting down his throat to breathe. We'd been through that enough, didn't want to go back. However, the doctors said he did great, and Jonathin made it down in time from work to see him first in recovery. He looked so sad in that bed all drugged up. I think that was the worst part. He got the works with his hernia, orchiopexy, and g tube. Quickly after we saw him he was moved to his room up in the Simon Towers. All he wanted through the day was his blankie, pacifier, and his morphine. We tried not to touch him, because he was so sensitive and it would just agitate him more. He was in and out of sleep all day long. The night wasn't so bad, other than a couple times he was awake and they gave him meds. They started feeds 4 hours after surgery purely through the tube. He didn't seem to mind the food, but sure didn't want us touching his belly. His MIC-EY button looks a lot like a hole on a beach ball. It has large sutures around it holding it in place till Wednesday. We just lock a tube in to it and feed him by gravity. By the time Saturday was there I wanted to see if he would take some by mouth before we tubed him, since that is my plan. I don't want to rely on the tube all the time, so he forgets how to eat. He took half a bottle that way for me and then we were able to tube the rest. Finally after the tiniest of bowel movements we were discharged at 4pm on Saturday. Luke did really well on the car ride home. We thought the carseat would be a problem, but he seemed comfy until you had to get him in and out.
We're now home and Luke has survived his first night back. He must have really missed his bed too, because we are on 12 hours so far of sleep...yea! So today we will take it easy and try to figure out this new lifestyle. thank you again for the prayers the past few days and over the past year. Hopefully this will help us gain some weight and alleviate some stress for all of us.
Jordan
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