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Friday, October 1, 2010


Benjamin had another busy today. This morning we took him down to x-ray for the contrast study. The ended up giving him 35mls of barium through his NG tube. I thought for sure that he would throw that up because he has never had that much in his tummy and barium is like cement. But he kept it all in. Then he had lots of x-rays throughout the day. So he was up a lot and exhausted by the end of the day. We haven't heard the results from the test yet, but I assume if there was anything serious we would have heard by now...but tomorrow afternoon we'll see the doctor and know for sure. I can't wait to hear. He's up to 12mls and hour so we're half way there. That's very encouraging. So I'm hopeful that the medication is helping things work faster. The surgeon wants just to keep pushing through and as long as he doesn't have any major vomitting we'll keep pushing ahead. Bottle feeding didn't go that great this afternoon, but he was so tired I'm not surprised. He's put on 140grams since he got his central line...its amazing what proper nutrition can do...Anyways I posted a pic of his tummy now..its almost fully healed..the small open areas are where his stoma came out so its taking a little longer to heal. But over all its amazing how it looks after 2 weeks. Please keep praying that we make progress daily and that we can bring our little hero home soon.

1 comment:

Tanya said...

:) So happy to read things are looking great :):)

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