12-21-11 ~ 6:30 Update

Wow…..  Korbin pulled through surgery like a champ!!! He has been such an amazing trooper through all this!  Once in surgery it took docs an hour and half to find the leak. The leak was about the size of the tip of a ballpoint pen. It doesn’t seem like much but on the inside it’s A LOT! It was enough to fill Korbin’s abdomen with poop and gases.  Once they fixed the leak they literally washed his insides with soap and water trying to get rid of all the bacteria.  They were able to fix the leak however with so much poop just floating around in there it really irritated all his insides. So they stitched the site back together then they took a piece of the “apron fat” and used it as a patch\bandage over the staples. The doc  tacked the fat apron  to the colon to kind of help hold it together.  Just below the site they left a drain tube in, hopefully if there is no more leaks.  So hopefully either the fat will catch it and it if that don’t happen then the drain tube will catch it.  Ok so got him all stitched up there… Now moving on to the rest of his body..He DOES have an ostomy site.. We will use the ostomy site and his button to keep poop out away from connection site and help keep the tissue less irritated in there. He also has an NG tube to also help keep everything out and a catheter.  He seems to have tubes everywhere… Dr. Lal shared that we are stable but not out of the woods…  He had A LOT of poop just floating around in his belly so we worry about infection, puss pockets, of course all the sites being infected… Infection is a big worry.. Temp has been a steady 103.3 through the nite…  Yes we will be here for Christmas… They expect him to be here at least 10 more days.  Could be longer, he said he would be very surprised if we got out of here in 7 says… I told him I had a mighty God! He smiled and said “ I know so do I!!!” VERY encouraging!!!!  Please pray that Korb will leave all his tubes alone.. He has already partly  pulled out his NG tube ( in his nose) on  accident, I think he just got confused and scared and pulled a little and it started to come out. He knows now that he can’t touch it..  Thank you so much for all your prayers, support and encouraging words.. Really means a lot.. I had a good cleansing cry yesterday and I am ready to tackle a new day!