Going Home

After a more than three week stay at Childrens, we are going home! Peyton had surgery for a g-tube and fundo 4 days ago and is recovering great. We have been learning all the in and outs of a g-tube and feeding pump. Nothing too hard, but such a lifesaver for our little guy. Eating had really become something we were not looking forward to since Peyton would reflux and choke so often. It got to the point that feeding him was like setting him up to be tortured by his refluxing and aspirating tendencies shortly after every meal. Now, we "fill up his gas tank" as Colby says, as he happily sucks on his binki!
After surgery, Peyton went back on Oxygen for a few days, but has now been off for 24 hours. He has dipped a few times in his saturation, but nothing too bad. He just has to keep us on our toes! ha ha I personally think Peyton decided if Grandma and Papa were going to be out of town for the month, he was going to add his own excitment for July!
Here are a few pictures I took during our stay. My favorite is the one in which he is holding on to John's finger. This was taken when we got to our room after surgery and Peyton was still pretty out of it, but knew that Daddy was standing right beside him.

A Busy Month!

I can't believe it's been a month since I've last posted! We've had some fun adventures and not so fun adventures. First, we all enjoyed a day at the Fresno Met. It was a "field trip" for Andrew. I have him doing some summer school work at home with me and after completing a set number of days, we planned a few field trips. We asked the Gomez girls, Colby, and Katie to join us. We missed Christian who was at summer school at the time we could go. We all "had a ball" as we visited the ball exhibit, Bob the Builder, and Brain Teasers and Scientific Phenomena. We then went to Red Robbin for a great lunch. We had fun! I was thankful that Colby and Katie came to share the day with us. They were helpful with Peyton when I had to attend to his "lunch".

We also have spent some time at Children's this month. It seems that Peyton is having a little trouble with his bottle feeds. While he is able to take a bottle, he is still burning too many calories and his refluxing and occasional tendencies to aspirate have made bottle feeding too risky. He is now on a temporary NG feeding tube with a continuous pump while we await surgery for a G-tube and a fundoplication. The fundo is a surgery in which the top part of the stomach is wrapped around the esophagus to make it impossible to reflux and vomit. The G-tube is a feeding tube that goes directly into his tummy to making feeding a little easier and takes away the risk of aspirating as the food has a direct connection rather than going through his esophagus. I am looking forward to the surgeries to get him over this hump and start putting some weight on this little guy of ours.