June 1, 2011

Today Tripp's surgery was scheduled for his gtube for friday, we wont know what time on friday until later Thursday. The surgery can be done laproscopically since he is a good size. The actual surgery will take around 2 hours not including the prep and recover time.  After this surgery, if something is still wrong with his airway the neonatologist said they would go to ENT and Plastics and say look he needs to be evaluated more closely because this is the only thing that is keeping him from going home.  Im hoping and praying that his airway will be better after the surgery because if it does come to him having the jaw extraction then he would be here for several months, so Im hoping and praying that this will not be the case.  We also found out the results of his hearing test, it came back that Tripp has some mild to moderate hearing loss in both ears that is permanent because the damage was done to the nerve.  He will need hearing aids the rest of his life for him to hear normally.  The audiologist also said that she wanted to find us someone who he could see in Roanoke, because with us being out of state she wasn't positive if our insurance would pay for the hearing aids and they can be quite expensive, and that she would also like the test to be repeated in a month or so.