May 14, 2009

Thanks for the new duds Bacon family,
it is already helping
to pay for my room and board!

Demetri has a lot of good news. His weight is up to 2100 grams, that's 4 lbs 10 oz. And he is getting so big.

Also... he is scheduled for surgery on Monday afternoon. They are planning to do both the gastrostomy tube and the fundoplication at the same time. We are hoping that they can do it by laproscope instead of as an open procedure to make his recovery easier. He had an upper GI study (they put barium in his NG tube and watched it with an x-ray machine as it moved from his stomach to small intestines) on Monday that showed significant reflux of the barium back up into his esophagusm, but it also showed that his intestines were positioned properly. So we are all set for surgery.

NAP TIME!

He has been here long enough and is cute enough that he has attracted a couple of nurses that have chosen to be his primary nurses. This means that they are assigned to him every time that they work. Kathy and Stacey are taking very good care of our little man.

This past weekend Kristen and Eleni had a day out when they went to a baby shower for a friend. Eleni entertained everyone with her twirling and giggling and helped to open the presents. She is keenly aware that everything is not well with Demetri. She asked daddy if he was sad because Demetri wasn't with us at dinner last night. Hopefully we won't have to have many more dinners without him and that he will be home with us in the next couple of weeks.