Surgery # four

Today Chance had his fourth surgery... we started out the day to come with a rough night last night, his vitals up and down for the last couple of days, his heart rate in the 170's to 180's, his oxygen had been fluctuating, and later yesterday evening the drain that he had in the opening in his belly was starting to become clogged and backed up. Later that night and into this morning the nurses and doctors tried their best to keep the fluid contained, but were unsuccessfull, there was just to much of it, and started leaking out. He was scheduled to go into surgery today at 2pm but fortunately they were able to get him in an hour early. The procedure took roughly two hours... Dr. Myer and her attending came to meet with us after a while to tell us that he did good. However they were unable to do what they had wanted, which was remove more of the infected tissues, because it wasn't soft enough. so this time around they cleaned out the fluid as usual and stitched a new kind of patch on his belly and pulled the two ends of his perforated bowel outside of his stomach and covered it with a Vaseline gauze so the fluid will drain out his abdominal cavity instead of in. Dr. Myer also informed us that with this new patch they wouldn't have to do another surgery on him for another three to four weeks, she wants nature to take it's course and soften up his bowels and scar tissues so they can finish what they started. Now the good news for the day was that none of the bowel tissues as far as she could tell was damaged or dead, so that in it self is a huge blessing!!! Tonight Chance is doing much better and resting comfortably...Our little mirical has long road still ahead of him, but so far it is evident that our Father in Heaven has carried him every step of the way... we thank all who have kept him and us in your prayers... truely words can't say enough. PS. sorry the system is down and we will add pictures as soon as we can.