G Tube Surgery (Post-Op Shots)

Yesterday we checked into the hospital and had to wait hours before her surgery could begin. They took her back to the OR and we waited. Waiting was the theme of the day. About 30-45 minutes after they took our darling girl to the OR I was paged to a room to receive a call. The call was from an OR nurse letting me know things did not go as planned and that instead of doing it all laproscopically they had to open up her belly. Talk about scaring the crap out of a parent. She couldn't offer any more than that simply and terrifying message. Then we waited. Again. Finally 30 minutes later the doctor came down to speak to us. He explained that the reason he had to open her belly up was because he could not correctly visualize the tube placement once they began blowing up the balloon meant to hold the tube in place. He said he'd never had change up the procedure due to that reason before but he felt more safe just opening her up and inserting a bard button (way more traumatic and painful to change out) temporarily. We were thankful he took the safest route for our baby girl but were still just aching to see her and hold her and KNOW she was okay. An hour later we were paged to be reunited with Delaney. She was sleeping and her discomfort seemed to be very well controlled on pain medication. We waited in an observation room for two hours and then were moved to the floor.

The night was horrible. She was in so much pain and she was letting us know. She cried and screamed and whimpered. She desated and went apeanic and her resps went down to 10 more than once. She was definitely struggling. Finally around 5am they were able to get ahead of her pain and she's been sleeping for 2.5 hours. Bless that child.