Tripp had his 2nd jaw distraction yesterday, which was also his 4th surgery all together. We made really good time coming down, there was no traffic which is not usually the case. So we got here and where we were supposed to be about 15 minutes early (1115); and of course like every hospital they were running late. They finally called Tripp back to preop and then took him back to the OR around 2. Then we waited waited and waited. It was around 615 when we finally got the call from our plastic surgeon that he was done, he had done a fantastic job, and anesthesia was currently trying to get him extubated before he went up to the PICU. We then went up to the PICU waiting room and finally got to come back to see him around 830.
His face is pretty swollen, but he was able to come off the ventilator with no problems and was only on 1 liter of oxygen last night and totally off of the oxygen today. He is still desating while he is asleep, but as we have proven in the past the oxygen is of no help to him with it because of his obstruction.
He is also in a lot of pain, sleeping and resting alot. He is currently just getting some pain meds, iv fluid (normal after surgery just so he doesn't get dehydrated) and some antibiotics so that he doesn't develop any bug post-op.
Other than that, he is doing great and we are waiting for a bed on a step down peds unit. Plastics is planning to try to move his jaw forward a little faster this time (since he is now older and a little bigger) so hopefully we will be home for Christmas :)
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