I feel a bit nervous being so far away from Jensen at the moment. We called just before we went to sleep to check on him. He had done a poo!!!! Yeehah....Phil and I high fived and went off to sleep happy.
Oh what a relief, literally for him and emotionally for us. A good size poo too and some mucus, so his bowel has cleared the blockage, and is up and running again. Now the air can gradually follow, as his tummy is still large, but nice and soft and is thought to be just fluid. The blockage was in the bowel loop of his hernia, so I can imagine he is feeling a whole lot better. He looks very happy and alert today, more like his little self. They are now weening him off the morphine (has dropped from 16 to 12 so far), they have also lessened his respiratory support as he is breathing a lot on his own, and will gradually stop some of the antibiotics as he is regulating his temperature again. His oxygen requirements have also lessened. So he's doing all the right things, behaving very well, and keeping the doctors, nurses, and surgeons happy.
We returned from lunch to find that he had done another poo, and in front of the surgeon nonetheless so he had a good look and was very happy with it. They will give his tummy a rest for another day or so and recommence feeds then at 1ml four hourly. I guess then we'll wait for it to come out the other end and then send us on our merry way. The doctors and nurses from RNS have been calling and texting asking after Jensen which is lovely, and say that he never stops surprising them. I told them they'd have to rewrite some medical journals....
He still looks very chubby, but it's mainly from fluid. He had a platelet transfusion both before surgery and yesterday and this can make them a bit oedematous. He has been weeing a lot though which is great, he is weeing double the amount they would be happy with, and has suddenly been letting the nurses know he is not appreciative of having a sodden nappy.
The Easter bunny paid us a visit today and the three of us had our photo with him, he gave Jensen a little blue toy bunny. This is the second Easter treat he's had in as many days...some Lindt bunnies previously, but there seems to be one missing...daddy??.
Jensen is continuing to win hearts all over town. The nurses here have said they can see why he's such a favourite at RNS. Nurse Catherine even called us as we were arriving back from a hospital break to say he was so awake and beautiful we had to come see him.
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