Emergency Surgery

So William just had an emergency surgery. It went well, but we have had an eventful night. Pretty much right after we got home, we got a call from ISCU informing us that they discovered free air around William's intestines. So, they informed us a bit of what that might mean, what the surgery would look like. Then we decided to head back up to Evanston to meet the surgeon and to be there to see William before and after. 

The surgery was minor, but for someone as big as William, anything is major. He needed a tube to be inserted into his abdomen to let the air escape and to let any fluid drain out. This was necessary, otherwise infection would fester and get worse. 

The good thing is that the tube is in the right spot and that it already let air and fluid escape. William's oxygen numbers actually seemed to improve some because the escaped air allows his lungs to expand better. 

William won't be able to have mother's milk until he is healed up, which can take anywhere from a week to two weeks. His feeding tube is now a suction tube to remove excess air and possibly fluid from his stomach. He'll still get his IV nutritional blend. 

This has been waaaaay stressful and we really need some rest. Jeff can probably augment this with some better details than me, I'm still kind of in shock about this whole thing.