Robbie was able to break his fever today and had a really good day. The fever started to break this morning and really broke around lunch. He was pouring sweat and soaked through his neck roll, but got the temperature back to normal. He also received 150 mL of blood today which took his hemoglobin count from 7.0 to 10.2, which we found out is a good thing. He got some of his best sleep since we got here, just peacefully resting and breathing normally.
The doctors were talking about taking the tube out of his nose tomorrow, allowing him to breath even better. It is in right now to help get all the gunk out of his stomach. He did have a giant bowel movement yesterday but they still aren't hearing any bowel sounds, so they assumed it was stuff from before surgery. Once they hear bowel sounds and he starts dumping, then he can start to eat some food. He has to obviously start slow with Pedialite but will gradually move to more substantial foods. The concern we had was with his surgerynwe had in Cincinnati to repair his Imperferate Anus, would this surgery mess up his system and cause any problems. Doctors said that there won't be any problems because he will be on laxatives and won't have any problems doing his business.
We hope we have a lot more days like today and can't believe that a week ago at this time we were preparing for surgery. Surprisingly this first week has flown by, now just another five weeks or so to go.
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