Samuel is out of surgery and doing well!

Samuel was scheduled for surgery at 9:00 this morning, but he didn’t go to surgery until 2:00 pm.  The nurses said there was bus crash in Houston and Ben Taub Hospital was full, so they sent the rest of the injured people to Hermann Hospital.  Last night Samuel’s fever spiked.  We still don’t have the final results back, but he definitely has an infection in his kidneys and bladder.   Dr. Kozar said she wasn’t surprised by that at all and actually expected it a long time ago being that he has some many tubes and the human body doesn’t like foreign objects.  Samuel came out of surgery at 5:30 pm.  The surgery went well and he doesn’t have a JP drain anymore!  That’s one less tube!!!  We are praying his body will tolerate it and that this will give him a little relief from the pain.   He is low on magnesium so they are going to work on bringing those numbers up.  He is still pretty out of it and only wakes up for brief periods of time. 

Dr. Kozar came by while Samuel was in the operating room and talked to me for about an hour and a half.  She was heading home and just came by to chat and see how Samuel was doing.  We had a great conversation.  After talking to her, I think it’s time to start moving towards setting things up for him to have the big surgeries he will need in Baltimore.   I am guessing we won’t be able to do that until after the first of the year, but we can start working on getting all the info to his doctor up there and scheduling those surgeries.  Dr. Kozar said that Samuel will need to weigh about 117 before he will be healthy enough to have such serious surgeries.  He is gaining weight well now and we are all pleased with his progress.    

So…..thank you for praying for Samuel and please continue to pray for his progress, peace and complete healing.  It sounds like the soonest we can go home would be possibly Friday because they won’t have the final results from some of the tests back until then.  I feel like today brought some good news though, and I am so thankful for that.  God is good and deserves all the glory!