Surgery #2

Today was Tripp's second surgery. During the first surgery to place his g-tube, they weren't able to use an actual g-tube because he was too small for it. Instead, they used a foley catheter. This was doing well until recently when it started to leak some.  Today they went in to switch the foley catheter to an actual g-tube.  The procedure went well and Tripp did great! While they were in there they put some dye into Tripp's esophagus pouch and his stomach just to check if they had grown any. This showed something AMAZING.. his esophagus and stomach have grown enough that they are touching. So this means that they don't have to do any stretching! Funny thing is I asked his surgeon yesterday what would they do if they got in there and saw that they had grown enough to be fixed what would they do. She said this was highly unlikely to happen, but if it did they would only switch the tubes and plan to do the re-attachment later. When the doctor came to talk to me after the surgery, she had a huge smile on her face. I was in shock when she told me and asked her twice if she was serious. The plan now is to wait a month to do the re-attachment so he can grow some more and get stronger.  

Thank you all so much for your continued prayers for Tripp! As you can see, they're truly doing something special! We would've never thought in just 5 short weeks that this is what they would find when they did their reassessment. We're so thankful for our growing baby boy! He's our little miracle in the making!