Good evening all. It has been a pretty good day here in Chatta-Vegas. The boys are bathing before going to bed and Zander had a good day.
Late last night, Zander was taking off the ventilator and returned to the moist air mask covering his trach. Earlier this morning, Dr. Kelley also allowed Zander to resume eating through his G-tube. He is getting 15 ml every 3 hours and each feeding is taking about 30 minutes. The hope is that each feeding will slowly expand the stomach and that the length of each feeding will keep the stomach expanded until his next feeding. This is good news. Thus far, there has been little reflux, but only time will tell.
Christie, Jackson and I visited Zander this afternoon. He is now in a crib (Ethan's old bed) and is resting rather comfortably. The above pictures show Zander in his new crib (no pun intended).
It has been a good day for Zander, but a long day for all of us. Tomorrow, Zander will undergo a CT-Scan to see how his ventricularmegaly is doing (spaces between the ventricles in his brain) and also to see how his nasal passage is doing. As you will recall, the ventricularmegaly was and continues to be a significant issue with Zander and now that everything is connected, they feel it necessary to see how he is doing. The left nostril is also narrow and they are trying to kill two birds with one test as opposed to running two separate tests. In the next few days he will also have a renal ultrasound to check on his dilated kidney (left).
I will keep everyone posted on Zman's progress, but today, as mentioned above, was a good day. I will write again tomorrow...if not sooner. Thanks to all for the prayers, comments and encouraging words. Please pray for a good friend of mine as it appears that cancer is present in his lymph nodes. Old man, you have alot of fight left and God is still in the business of miracles and healing. I will see you soon.
Rest easy boys and keep moving along. Good night Ethan, Eli, Amber and Chad. We hope all is well in Calhoun, GA. You are in our prayers.
Keep moving along Zman. We love all of you.
Clancy
3 comments:
We are so glad Zander is doing well after surgery. We miss yall! Thanks so much for the card. Yall really shouldn't have done that. I'm glad Zander got Ethans old bed. Maybe it will make him rest better. Ethan said tell everybody in pod 4 that he misses them! Take care of our Dallas! Keep in touch! Keep up the good work Zman!
I love the pictures of the ZMan sleeping "hard"--he looks very content in his new bed. You all remain in our prayers.
Love,
Aunt Heidi and family
What a trooper that little Z-man is!!! I know our Jesus is right there beside him through all of these procedures. You all are in our thoughts and prayers continually.
Blessings upon you all!
Sandy and Tammy Howard
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