Thursday, December 25, 2008

Rubin

So it's been a crazy couple of days and I haven't even touched a computer until now, so here is the surgery update. They took him in around 4:00 on Tuesday for surgery and everything went well. The doctor seemed encouraged by the way things went and said it was better than he expected. They had to remove 8 inches of his small intestine, which isn't bad - they were predicting possibly a foot or more. He seems to think that this should take care of the problem for a long time, and he said that the majority of the people who have this surgery never have another one. We are hoping Rubin will be part of that group. Tuesday night was pretty rough - he was in a ton of pain after coming back up to the room from recovery and it took them several hours to get the pain under control. He's not a fan of the anesthesiologist who made the decision to switch his pain meds from what the surgeon had ordered but they finally got everything straightened out and everyone was here apologizing on Wed morning. They removed most of his tubes today so he is down to just an IV, and has gotten up a couple of days today to walk around. He looks a lot better today than he did yesterday, and are hoping tomorrow is even better. He should get to start a liquid diet tomorrow - he has had nothing but ice chips for the past 2 days.
My family is in from Arkansas, so I have been splitting time at home with them and here at the hospital with Rubin. He is pretty bummed that he had to miss Christmas and Brayden opening presents, but he also didn't want to make Brayden wait to open them, so I video taped everything and then had Rubin watch it all this morning. We are saving/freezing a lot of his favorite foods for when he is feeling better, and are celebrating Christmas with his family sometime in the next week or 2 so he will get to be around for that which is good.
Things should settle down a little over the next couple of days so I will try to be better about updating. I have a picture of his incision - 15 staples. I won't post it to spare those with weak stomachs...
Merry Christmas!

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