DAY OF SURGERY AT HOME ENJOYING LIFE
Yesterday Nash went into surgery at 12 Noon to have his lip and nose cosmetically repaired. Dr. Morales also took out the prosthesis to clean and modify it due to Nash's growth. Everything with the surgery went very well! He is a whole new man!! Nash will have the Logan's Bow (metal contraption and tape) on 3-4 weeks. He'll have the nasal stints stitched in for a month then Dr. Morales will remove the stitch but we will need to continue to keep the stints in for a total of 3 months. Arm restraints are also required for much of this time.
The nurses tell us the first day is more about pain control then eating. Therefore he was given Morphine post-opt and did really well on it for about 6 hours. The nurses decided to give him another dose because of his pain symptoms and this time we had some hiccups. Nash's heart rate and O2 saturation levels were going up, down, up, down. Some of the dips were really drastic and required full oxygen and shaking him to "piss him off" and get his heart rate back up. We suspect the original dose of Morphine was not completely out of his system so they essentially gave him more on the second dose than he could handle. Because of the risk involved with these fluctuations, the doctors ordered he be given Narcon. Narcon is the reciprocal drug to Morphine / pain killers and completely wipes out their affects. The half life of this drug is one-hour so any pain killers given during that one-hour time frame would be ineffective. Dad had to kick all the ladies out of the room (nurses included) and have a heart to heart with the boy. He calmed down, ate 1/4 oz of pedialite and manned up! He's such a stud!!
POST-OPT 1 HOUR AFTER SURGERY
Day #2 (Friday) has gone really well. Nash has stabilized his heart rate and O2 sat levels. We still have a few scares here and there but he's able to recover without any oxygen put on him. Dad was able to "force feed" him about 1 oz. of milk this afternoon. He really enjoyed that 1 oz. and decided to pretty much sleep the afternoon away. He'll get a bath tonight and hopefully eat a HUGE meal before retiring for a well deserved nights rest...or at least that is what Mom is hoping for!!
Day #2 resting on Dad's arm. Now if we can just get him to open his eyes and eat, eat , eat
We hope to be discharged from the hospital sometime tomorrow. As soon as Nash begins to eat regularly and continue to maintain his vitals we can go home. We'll do another post in a few days or so and give an update on his progress.
DAY OF SURGERY AT HOME ENJOYING LIFE
6 comments:
Oh Ash, he looks like he is doing so well, handling all this crap as well as can be expected. I know that it is the hardest thing in the world to see your child suffer and I hope that you and your little fam are doing OK! He just looks like he is making leaps and bounds though, and is as beautiful as ever, congrats!
He looks so good. Hope he gets eating good soon for you guys.
congrats guys he looks great!! poor little guys has been through a lot, you guys are amazing parents! Hang in there!!We are thinking about you guys!!
I'm so glad this surgery is over and hopefully you guys can just focus on the recovery now. He looks so good bless his little heart. I can't even imagine what you guys are going through, but hang in there. Let us know if we can do anything at all to help out.
What a STUD he is...He is going to be one tuff little sucker when he gets older (watch out)! It was so good to she him! He looks great and we are so glad that everything went well!
I am so glad that the surgery is over for you guys! I can't even imagine how hard that would be to watch your sweet baby have a major surgery! I am glad to hear that Nash is doing well and we hope to meet him soon.
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