Surgery is Done!

Surgery is done!  We were scheduled for 12:30 surgery time and got in to the OR closer to 2:00.  We didn’t hear from the surgeon till 6:15!  It was a little scary waiting for almost 5 hours when we were expecting a 2 hour surgery.  Long surgeries usually mean there was something else wrong but everything went great.  Dr. Barnhart, the surgeon, said the herniated bowel wasn’t the main problem and there were some adhesions or scar tissue that was obstructing the small and large intestine.  He found that there was an adhesion on the small intestine that he ended cutting out, about 2 inches.  Also on the large intestine he cut out about an inch of adhesions that were slowing it down.  Dr. Barnhart is confident that he found and fixed the problems that were causing Gibson’s digestive tract to not work correctly.  Surgery went longer than expected because Dr. Barnhart was so thorough and wanted to make sure he checked everything so he wouldn’t have to re-open Gibson again.  He is an amazing surgeon and we are so grateful he has done all of Gibson’s surgeries.  Gibson did well and is still doing really well right now.  He is still heavily sedated which is keeping him very calmed and relaxed for the next few days while his body recovers.  If everything goes well with the recovery of his intestine we might start feeds again next week. It all really depends on how Gibson is recovering.  We are just so thankful everything went well and hoping that Gibson will be able to start feeds next week and start getting stronger.