Avoided another surgery

Santino had been doing really well the last couple of weeks. The docs had been increasing his PD dwells and his feed intake. He seemed to be handling it well. Yesterday his primary nurse thought he looked a little pale and thought he should be looked at. They did a xray on him and saw that he had a bunch of air outside of his abdomen and around his bowels. This concerned the Dr. and she thought he might have a possible tear in his bowel. In order to correct that they would have to do surgery on him that afternoon. Of course I was upset thinking of my baby having to be cut open again on his little tummy. Well my tears didn't last very long. The surgeon took a look at the xray and Tino and thought he looked fine. He wasn't too concerned w/ it and thought it was just air coming from his PD catheter. To make sure they continued w/ xrays every 4 hrs to check for any changes. The xrays only showed improvement. So he is clear from having surgery. Unfortunately Tino was not allowed to eat this whole time until early this evening. He handled it like a trooper. He was a little fussy but not totally inconsolable. The nurse fed him tonight by bottle (6 cc's) and he guzzled it down. I was very happy to hear that. It just hurts seeing him so hungry and not being able to feed him. I will be able to sleep a little easier tonight knowing he has some of mommies milk in his tummy. I hope he sleeps a little easier as well.