1st day of Revision Surgery

Leon was admitted this morning at 6 am. He is feeling better even though we stopped feeding him last night. We went to the Admission's Room and met up with Dr Farmer to talk about 

the plan for his surgery.

The game plan would be to revise his Ostomy then attempt to reconnect his colon together. His ostomy has been in the prolapsed condition 4 months now ever since we got discharged.  I think every month his gut pushes out an inch or so? Anyways, we are hoping this surgery will help his ostomy stay intact. Dr Farmer will try to straighten  and stretch out his small intestine to prevent another prolapse, then they will try to reconnect his colon. Actually there are two plans for Jordan's colon: Dr Farmer will have to see if reconnection is possible and thats dependent on the size of his colon. If it's too small, the doctor might have to leave it as it is and use a re-feed method. That translates to... more work for us! 

We pray that it will be a success, God only knows. 

The surgeon nurse just called us. He said they started at 10 am and

 it might take 2 to 3 hrs. We will keep everyone updated on developing events. Right now we are in the 

OR waiting room. Thank God we are able to use our computer here! The new 

UCLA building is really beautiful and futuristic, it eases our minds a bit from the worries and stress.

This is the entrance of  Mattel Childrend's Hospital U

CLA 

Here we are in the OR waiting room

Update 12:25 - Nurse called and they are done closing up. We are surprised Dr. Farmer came here 10 mins to talk to us. He said Leon is doing great! His ostomy will be on the left side now which I think is better to keep off away from his broviac line. He did reconnect the bowels together! A good relief to us yehey no more prolapse. Leon just transferred at the Post Recovery Room. We will get back to you all as we need to see our  lil' fighter Leon. 

Update 7:42 -  Leon has been transferred to PICU. We are happy and thankful because of the result of the surgery, Dr. Farmer did his best to make the first plan on reconnecting his bo

wels. The fistula and the old prolapse sight is now closed and he has a new ostomy which on his lower left abdnomen, looking preety good. I hope it'll stay like this until it is ready to close. Leon is comfortable resting on his bed, stable and just relaxed. He usually cries and get really fussy but now we are surprised on how he handle this...maybe he is getting expert on how he handle his body whenever he go under the surgery...but surely he knows how to make us smile :)

      Right now, he is being observed for 24 hours. They are working on getting his TPN back, there might be changes on the TPN doses but he will still getting the full nutrients. We brought our wonderful Omegaven and gave it the pharmarcy so they could store it and prepare for him. We are glad that they allowed to use it  on him here. Anyway, we will continue to update you all tomorrow as we have to get some rest. We would like to Thank everyone who prayed for our little fighter. God Bless your hearts!

 Here's our little champ sleeping quietly with his favorite pacifier and pillow around him