Day 125

I have decided that I hate everything about surgery. It really is the worst thing for a little baby (and his parents) to go through. 

Nate's rotten experience started on Wednesday at 2:00pm when the surgeon put Nate on a clear liquid diet in order to make sure his intestines were clean before surgery. He got unflavored Pedialyte for a total of 19 hours. They couldn't even give him something that tasted like fruit punch :(  He was not a happy camper for the first couple of feedings and he screamed for most of the evening. We expected it to continue throughout the night so Todd and I decided to take shifts holding him so he would be more comfortable. I'm not sure if it was the holding or complete exhaustion, but he slept pretty well the rest of the night with only a few real tantrums. 

This was taken right before they came to get him for surgery. We thought he looked like he was pleading for something to eat :) 

They took him down for surgery at about 9 am and didn't bring him back up until 1 pm. The surgeon said it all went well but there was a lot of scarring from his previous surgery so it took longer than she expected. She thinks that because of the extra work she had to do, it might take him a little longer to recover than we originally expected. 

Here is Nate this morning. You can see how swollen his poor little belly is.  He has had a hard time peeing since his surgery so he gained 6 ounces of fluid since yesterday. He is getting Morphine every hour still but they are hoping to start weaning him down more today so they can get him off of the ventilator. He gets pretty agitated with all that stuff down his throat :( Poor guy is feeling pretty rough today.