Distraction

Last week wasnt very exciting, just basically working on getting Tripps feeds back up to the normal amount, which happened on friday, and just alot of waiting until he had his surgery today. 
Todays surgery went pretty well.  They took him back about 715 and were done around 11.  They were able to get an iv and avoid a central line (which the nurses werent happy about bc hes a hard stick and the ivs in babies only last a couple of days, but I dont think that he should have something like that just to make their job easier either). And putting in the distractor went well.  Because he is quite swollen at this point he came back up to the NICU on a vent, so they will keep him pretty sedated over the next few days until this is able to come out. The distractor itself moved the jaw forward about 1 mm today and then they will start turning the device tomorrow and continue over the next few weeks to get his jaw out far enough to where he can breathe on his own.  Older kids have said that the only painful part of the process is the actual surgery so that is good for us to know that he wont be in alot of constant pain over the next few weeks, but he will probably have some tylenol prn in case he does show some signs of pain or discomfort.  Hopefully the distraction is the last step we have to take before we all get to come home.  (And just so everyone knows the pictures on the internet actually look alot worse than his actually does there is only one small flexible screw that comes out near each ear that they turn each day. We were so happy when we saw that :) ).