Long Night Post OP

Yesterday was a long surgery day for Tino. He ended up being in surgery for 6 hours. No wonder he was so miserable last night. All the surgeries went well. He was able to be extubated pretty quickly after sedatives started wearing off. I was suprised they took him off of the vent so quickly. I hate seeing him with that huge tube down his throat but he would have been kept sedated and he would have rested more. But instead we had a restless night. He was able to get tylenol and morphine. The first small amount of morphine wasn't doing the trick so he was able to get a little more later on. The docs don't want to give babies too much because they tend to relax too much and stop breathing, scary. Which Tino has done twice while he was in the NICU.
He was able to get a little over an hour of sleep with each dose, given every 2 hrs as needed.

He did a lot of whining and moaning. I could tell he was very uncomfortable and hungry. I was able to swab his mouth with a wet spongecicle (lil sponge on a stick). He loved that! Wasn't enough for him though.
He finally slept the most when he was doing hemodialysis. Which I'm glad he slept through that.
He had his first hemo this morning and was able to UF 354. I was happy it worked out, since he is not able to do peritoneal while healing. He needed the dialysis to because his potassium was increasing, it was at 6.
Besides being uncomfortable and hungry he has been doing really well. He is still on a nasal canula for oxygen and all his vitals have been stable. After I left today he was transferred over to the IMU from PICU. That is always a good sign.
John is staying with him tonight so I can get a good night sleep and was able to spend time with the big kids. I did call to check on Tino tonight and they were busy putting in a new I.V. He likes to pull things out. Got to watch that boy!
I am exhausted and need to get some shut eye. Hopefully more good news tomorrow!

4 surgeries in one day!

Well here I am again. I haven't posted much because Tino has been doing so well. He has been acting like a normal baby: drooling, waking up in middle of the night, babbling, and just giving us great joy and sleepless nights. All has been too smooth so we had to throw it out of whack!

We are at the hospital right now waiting for our precious Tino to come out of surgery. He was admitted around 8 am for 4 surgeries. Tino is having a g-tube placement, fundo, hemo cath placement, and a bilateral hernia repair. He is going to have a few tender spots on his lil body :(
We, along with the doctors decided to have the g-tube placement done. Hopefully with the g-tube he will start to gain weight a lot more quickly. If he gains weight that will bring us closer to transplant weight of 22 lbs. The fundo is a surgery that wraps his stomach around the esophagus to prevent reflux. So no more projectile vomit or burping. The hernias he has had since birth and his urologist was waiting for another surgery to come up before tackling those. And last but not least the hemo cath placement, that is in case they are not able to do peritoneal dialysis on him. He usually becomes fluid overloaded quickly so he will be needing some type of dialysis while he heals. This is a lot for my little guy but it is all to prepare him for transplant and life after transplant.
Tino's nephrologist did mention on Monday that she would like to begin the process for transplant. She is going to get the paperwork in order so John and I can start being tested to see if we can be potential donors. I was very excited to hear the word transplant come out of Dr. Benador's mouth! I didn't ask too many questions because I wanted to get through this surgery first. After this I will be asking lots of questions!
Well back to the waiting room for me. Hopefully we will be able to see our baby boy by 1-1:30pm. It will be nice to see his cute face without the nj feeding tube taped on. I think he will be happy too!
Thank You for your prayers!
Yvette & Family