Christopher’s Journey.

The nurses unbandaged Chris’ legs and removed his rectal catheter. I got to change my first truly dirty nappy today (I know it seems weird to get excited over the sight of poo!!) so its good news that he bowels are working and that the operation was a success. He still has his stitches in, and these probably won’t be removed until day 10 after the op. Chris is really alert and awake for a lot of the time we spend with him, which is just lovely. He watches us as we talk to him. He is also getting very over his breathing tube and more than once, we have had to remove his hand from the tube as he attempts to pull it out. The Dr’s are entertaining the idea of removing the breathing tube in the next 48 hours. I believe though if our kid has anything to do with it, 48 hours is going to be a stretch!!. Chris is now being fed through a gavage tube (through his nostril and into his tummy) every 3 hours 5mls of milk.