Surgery Day

Today was the day that Stephen had surgery to get a feeding tube put in. We were up at'em at 5am this morning packing getting ready to head to Duke.

  Of course, once we got to Duke we got to sit in the waiting room for about an hour before we were able to go into pre-op.  Once we got into pre-op, Stephen who was already exhausted from the morning got the sweetest nurse to help us get him ready for surgery.  

She was the best because she came prepared with bubbles and fun animal pens for us to entertain Stephen with while we waited for the doctors to tell us they were ready.  Stephen was in surgery for a total of about 45 minutes, start to finish.  The procedure itself only takes a few minutes to do. After surgery we headed back to recovery where he was just starting to come off an anesthesia. 

Recovery rooms are always so crowded and busy with people traveling in and out, we were hoping that we wouldn't be in recovery long and they would soon have a room for us- HA who were we kidding?!?  Almost 3 hours later, they had a room ready for us, Stephen was exhausted by this point and only wanted to sleep without disturbances.   Once we got all settled in the room, we got some fluids in him, got SpongeBob on the TV, and we were in business. 

His monitor

IV

Watching SpongeBob before dinner.

Overall, Stephen did great in surgery, he is having some pains so we are keeping him on medication to keep him comfortable.  He will be staying in the hospital tonight (with probably little to no sleep) and hopefully we will be released sometime tomorrow.  We will have a few days at home for him to recovery before we head back to start him on the ketogeneic diet next week.  

Thank you thank you thank you for all the sweet cards, emails, and messages.  We are so grateful for all the love, support and prayers we have been given- they have truly meant so much to us. 

Hopefully, tomorrow we will have pictures of us coming home! :)

Stephen come home!