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Tuesday Maddox is headed to the OR for the second time.




This time for a hernia repair and G-tube placement. A G-tube or
Gastrostomy tube is placed into the stomach from the outside and is a semi-permanent fixture. It will hopefully help us get good calories into our little guy, who has been steadily gaining small amounts this week. We are giving him rocket fuel right now to help beef him up. Formula and some additonal powder of some sort are added to my breast milk in specific volumes to give Maddox some pretty high calories. It is slowly working. It will be so helpful to get the NG tube out of his nose, which contributes to his gagging and vomiting. The vomiting has mostly disappeared most likely due to the Prilosec Maddox is taking. He is still not really taking much orally mainly because he tires too quickly. It isn't really worth burning more calories than he is taking in during an oral feeding due to the work it takes to suck and swallow and breathe. All these things are work for Maddox.

Maddox got an echo today, which he basically slept through, much to my amazement. His last echo, which was about a week post-op, was a less than positive experience and Maddox was miserable. His echo today showed great news - his mitral valve regurgitation(leakage) is now mild versus the moderate-severe seen at the last echo. Everything is looking good. A couple of weeks ago we fasted and prayed specifically about this mitral valve and that the Lord would make it improve because surgery had failed to do so. I know this improvement is once again attributed to my Father in Heaven. What a wonderful Christmas gift. And speaking of Christmas, if all goes to plan, and we have faith that things will work out, Maddox will be discharged around the 21, which means we will be home as a family of SIX for Christmas!! I'm going to be praying like crazy that it really happens. One more week.

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