Well surgery has been finalized for Thursday at noon. Benjamin will be going over Tuesday. I'm pretty sure he'll be in the ill infants nursery first off, and then if he is extubated right away he can go back there. But if he has to remain intubated he will go to the pediatric critical care unit. I'm very anxious about it all, but know that this is the means to an end. I have faith that all will be well.
Benjamin had a good day. He was less stuffy then yesterday which is good. We had a good snuggle this afternoon. Benjmain has his bloodwork done for surgery today. They do a lot of bloodwork to keep an close eye on everything..nutrition wise. The good news is that his bilirubin is down. This means the TPN cycling is giving his liver enough time to heal a bit while its off. I am so thankful for that. The not so great thing is that his hemoglobin was low again. I think it must be from all the bloodwork...and a little bit of bleeding from his stoma. Anyways the doctors decided to give him a transfusion today. If he wasn't going to the OR they would probably just leave him, but we definitely don't want him going to the OR with low hemoglobin.
Anyways...we're trying to really enjoy the next few days with Benjamin before he's down and out again. He's so good and its hard to think about him going through it all. But this will hopefully be it.