Squirt's surgery went well. Squirt had enough tissue on his parts that they didn't need to do a cheek graft (that would have automatically meant another surgery) like what was originally planned. Everything came together quite smoothly. If all goes well, one day when he is more coordinated, he will able to write his name in the snow. With each subsequent surgery, the percentage of something not healing right goes up. Basically, he could quote us numbers until he was blue in the face, but statistics are just statistics until you are on the wrong side of one. This is for short and long term recovery. I'm not going to say this was his last surgery because we just don't know; however, I feel(hope, hope, hope) he is fixed in a way that would make any subsequent surgery less invasive.
His recovery has been a lot harder than the last two. We think a lot has to do with his age and being more mobile. He has been able to communicate with us that it burns or he feels that he has to go poop. In fact, he screams while dropping himself on his bottom to the floor saying, "I gotta go poop" as plain as day. It is so sad to watch. We've been worried he has been hurting himself because he does this repeatedly and sometimes violently. It takes three of us to hold him down to change his diaper and give medicine. We were unable to give him anything but Tylenol and Motrin after we came home. And because he could tell us he had to go poop but couldn't, we couldn't give him anything stronger because it would only make it worse. He didn't sleep at all Friday and was in a panic state the entire time. So after we finally got him go, they ordered us some Tylenol with Codeine and it has been better. He slept through the night last time we just woke him to give medication. Today has been hard but not nearly as bad yesterday.
While the update isn't quite as cheerful as I had hoped, each day he will feel better and better.
Again, thank you all for your thoughts and prayers. We are so lucky to have such caring and loving family and friends.
1 comment:
poor lil squirt. i hope your little lovie starts feelin better really soon.
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