Well, I'm sure many of you heard the huge big news for today, but why I don't I start at the beginning to fill in the details:
This morning started out great. I could tell Kayden was going to have an active day, and was ready to try to get out some gas! At about 9 or 9:30 the nurse came in with a very concerned look on her face and said that the surgery team had ordered another ct scan stat. What that meant was another iv line started for Kayden and trying to do the scan without sedation because the sedation team was not available until the afternoon. For any of you who have been in a ct scan, or heard of it, you know that you cannot move or the picture will not turn out right. Kayden did great getting in the other iv line (I think all the possible places to get iv lines put in have now been used at least once), we pumped him all full of the stuff that I can't remember the name of right now, and got him all ready to go. A little benedryel and some morphine, and we headed down. Aaron and I were both allowed to be in the room with him, and he was just a trooper! He lay so still and had fun going in and out of the "choo-choo tunnel," and almost fell asleep at one point!
We weren't back in our room 20 minutes before a nurse came in to tell us that the scan showed that Kayden had intussiception which basically means that part of his intestine went inside another. Surgery would fix the problem. Their hope was that they could just pull it out and it would stay, but it was possible they may have to cut some of the intestine out. Our doctor had called down to the operating room and squeezed us in an hour after we were told about this!
It was a relatively fast surgery, I think about 2 hours including recovery time, and things went well. They were able to just pull it out and so far has stayed. Our prayer now is that it would stay put and not slide in again. Once again I'm wanting you to pray for my son to pass gas!
He now has a tpn (total perinatal (going into the vein) nutrition)line giving his poor little body some nutrients, so hopefully he will bounce back quickly from this surgery so we can get home! We are on day number 12 in the hospital and are ready to go settle into our new home and have the family together again!
Chemotherapy is supposed to start Wednesday; this has all been such a whirlwind! I still find it hard to believe that MY son has cancer and that we are dealing with all of this! May God's glory shine through this and may He be glorified whenever this story is told, and where ever we go! May we be a witness of Him in all of this (although it is hard to feel that light shine sometimes!).
For those of you interested, my oldest sister is selling organic vanilla beans and will be donating the proceeds for helping pay for expenses toward Kayden's chemo. Her coop is called "Beans for Bean" (Bean is a nickname my sisters used to-no, still call me), but I forgot to ask her how she wanted to be contacted. If you are interested try going to this site: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=77763604875&ref=mf , but if that does not work, let me know and I'll see how else she would like to be contacted. Kristin, if you know of a better way, let me know!
Specific prayer requests are that his intestines would stay the way they are supposed to be, that gas would soon come, that there would be full recovery soon and that we would get to come home soon! Also please continue to pray that Bree's time at the Wood's would go the way it has been, because she is a very happy camper right now! She has wanted to live with the Wood's since almost the first time we met them, and so now she's getting her chance! Praise God that she is doing so well, that we found the problem in Kayden and that things went so well today! To God be the glory forever and ever amen!
Friday, May 15, 2009
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Korene, I set up a separate email address for the vanilla bean coop. If someone is interested and not on facebook, they can email me at beansforbean@yahoo.com :)
ReplyDeleteBTW, so glad the surgery went well. Praying you go home this weekend.
ReplyDeleteYou are a very present and active witness to the glory of GOD!!! I am humbled by your faith! Thank you. You can do all things through Christ! Prise God for that truth! Love Christen Juhnke
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