The news we've been waiting for...

Sorry to keep you waiting!  Between taking the weekend off the computer and in complete over joy and full of prayers of thanks...on behalf of Clint and Molly, I am proud to announce the procedure on Friday was a complete success!  Simon will be scheduled for the esophagus repair/connection in the coming weeks.  He is ready right now but getting OR time for the surgeon, assembling the team in which he wants to be there, etc. will take a little bit of time!  Patience for our little patient is the key right now.  The upside of waiting is likely the gap will be even better by the time they go in and repair everything.

They measure the distance between the esophagus and the stomach by vertebrae. He is 3.5 vertebrae away from closing the gap. The surgeon was hoping for 3, but once the feeding tube is disconnected from his belly it will allow his stomach to move around, whereas right now it is tethered to the outside wall of this abdomen.  This combined with the weeks of waiting should make for a smaller distance for making the connection.  Also, not to mention 3 vertebrae on 6# 9oz Simon is about the distance of 1 of our vertebrae on our backs.

                                  Simon is praying for all of you and says thanks for your prayers!

Thank you for all the prayers for Simon!  Hopefully the next couple of weeks is full of growth on Simon's behalf and Clint and Molly preparing for his late summer arrival to his home.  Hopefully Molly will see the Dr. this week and get an idea of the date of surgery.