Hurricane Andrew
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Just wanted to let you guys know I won't be around for a few days. My 6 year old is having surgery tomorrow, and I'll be occupied for a few days. It's fairly serious stuff. He's having a procedure known as fundoplication, where they essentially take part of your stomach and wrap it around the esophogus to help combat acid reflux.
Long story short, he's underweight for his age--37 pounds (just under 17 kilos for the rest of the world) and turns 7 in just a few months. He has very bad acid reflux---he's been on adult doses of Zantac AND Prilosec for the past 9 months, and he's still refluxing all the way up into his throat nearly 40% of the time.
He also gets a G-tube, which is essentially an expressway to and from his stomach both for feeding for a period of time after the surgery as well as to relieve gas buildup, since at first he won't be able to belch or otherwise get rid of the gas any other way. We had a shock last week. We were expecting the tube to be a 2- 3 week thing, but our last visit with the surgeon indicated that it is more likely a 6-12 month thing. Ugh.
Here's a quick link with some info on the procedure.
Anyway, thoughts and prayers would be greatly appreciated, and hopefully I'll have some good news to post in a few days.
Long story short, he's underweight for his age--37 pounds (just under 17 kilos for the rest of the world) and turns 7 in just a few months. He has very bad acid reflux---he's been on adult doses of Zantac AND Prilosec for the past 9 months, and he's still refluxing all the way up into his throat nearly 40% of the time.
He also gets a G-tube, which is essentially an expressway to and from his stomach both for feeding for a period of time after the surgery as well as to relieve gas buildup, since at first he won't be able to belch or otherwise get rid of the gas any other way. We had a shock last week. We were expecting the tube to be a 2- 3 week thing, but our last visit with the surgeon indicated that it is more likely a 6-12 month thing. Ugh.
Here's a quick link with some info on the procedure.
Anyway, thoughts and prayers would be greatly appreciated, and hopefully I'll have some good news to post in a few days.
