We checked him into surgery and there him and I waited till he went back. Mark and daddy went off to the GI clinic to do a test that we had scheduled for Mark. It was so nice of them to let us take care of both boys at the same time. It also gave Lil Mark a break from the surgery clinic for a while.
I went back with Broc and put him to sleep. I love that I am able to do that with him. He was so peaceful sleeping there. I also got to meet Dr Wood and Dr Putnam before hand and ask any last minute questions we had.
We passed the time by running down to get some breakfast/lunch as we were also starving. We never eat on days that Broc has to be NPO. When he tells us that he is starving we can say so are we. He always thanks us for not eating with him. He's so sweet.
Anyway an our passed and we were called back for our consult with all the Drs. GI came in and said that everything looked great from his point of view. He did take lots of biopsies and we will wait for those results.
Pulm came in and said that he found a lot of mucus in his lungs which he didn't like and took samples of that to make sure nothing was living in that mucus but said his lungs looked otherwise good.
ENT then came in and dropped a bombshell. They found a laryngeal cleft in Brocs esophagus. They said that there are 2 ways of fixing it either fat injections to build up the ditch again or surgery to close it so that nothing can get stuck there anymore. Its kind of like a ditch or pouch where food and liquid can get stuck. They are not for certain that that is causing some of his reflux issues but it very well can be.
Once Buddy was all done I was called back to see him. Man could I hear him. He was MAD!!!! Poor guy had an impedance probe down his nose into his stomach to measure his reflux episodes. He was screaming so loud and being so obnoxious I was so embarrassed but they assured me that all the kids that have this done are like this. Then to top it off they came back and said that after looking at the x ray the tube needed to be in a little further to work properly so they had to hold him down and push it in further. That just made him MADDER!!!!
We finally got him calmed down and moved into his room for the night. Daddy and Mark met us there too and once he saw his brother he was much happier. Lil Mark hopped onto his Buddies bed and they played games together. We ordered dinner for everyone and after that daddy and Mark left to go to the RMD House and Broc and I settled in for the night.
We had him eat as much as he could with a tube down his throat as we knew he had to be NPO for the next morning. Again not a happy man about that either.
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