Home sweet home

We are home as of last night.  Lalito did a great job tolerating his feeds as they switched him from IV fluids to formula through his j-tube.  His pain was pretty well controlled first with IV morphine and then oxycodone after he was up to full feeds.  Yesterday around noon they pulled out the chest tube, which made him a lot happier and I could finally pick him up.  The chest tube is a relatively small tube put in during surgery between the ribs and into the lung area to drain any excess air, fluid, or blood - it is G-R-O-S-S! Plus, I can't imagine it's very comfortable to have in, so needless to say I was very excited for it to come out.  Unfortunately, they weren't able to arrange scheduling our MRI until Friday at the earliest.  Since Lalo was up to full feeds at this point, his pain was controlled and he was off of the IV, we just needed a good xray and we got to leave.  It was a pretty quick recovery stay, but our surgeon is all about getting him out of the hospital full of sick kids.  The last thing Lalo needs is to catch something while he is at the hospital. 

We were all thrilled to be back home last night.  Both boys slept wonderfully and so did we.  Since Lalo had been doing great with not throwing up since surgery and very minimally even since our ER visit last week, we decided to try keeping his g-tube clamped (before we were basically letting his stomach emptying out through the tube to minimize him throwing up the normal, more painful way).  Unfortunately, he threw up 3 different times today and since the surgeon really doesn't want him throwing up, we unclamped it again. He again had some bile drainage and threw up one more time.  With any luck, this passes as his system recovers from surgery.  Overall Lalo is very happy and not in very much pain.