A Plan...

sort-of. Most of you know this already, but Davis was admitted to the hospital Tuesday morning. He was put to sleep and had 3 procedures done. First, they put a scope down his throat, through his stomach and into the first part of his intestines. Then, they went up from the other end. Yikes. Everything from that looked normal. They took biopsies, and the results should be back in about 7 days. He said even though it all looked normal, there could be allergy cells, and some other stuff. We will see. The third procedure was a pH probe. They stuck a tube up his nose down into his stomach. It had a little box, and a LOT of instructions, and it monitored all of the "goings on" in his stomach and esophagus for 24 hours. He said it would take 2 days to get the results of that one, but after the night we had, the nurses reported back to Dr. O and he decided to keep us and "rush" some of the results. Thank goodness. I should add that as horrible as the nurses thought last night went, it was absolutely typical for us. *sigh* It showed that he does, in fact, have acid reflux, but it is well controlled by the medications he takes. More importantly, it showed that he has "severe non-acid reflux." The cliff notes version of that one...everything that goes down into the stomach comes right back up. That explains A LOT! Yay! Now, for the fix. It's tricky. Dr. O wants to be conservative right now. He started him on a new medication. It should help the stomach empty faster, it coats the stomach, and works as an appetite stimulant...among other things. We go back to see him in 4 weeks. If it's working, we keep at it. If it isn't working, we have another surgery. It's called a Nissen Funduplication. I see it a lot at work, and have to say, it wouldn't be the worst of things. Definitely better than a feeding tube. The way a nissen works...they take the top part of the stomach and pull it up over the sphincter that connects the stomach to the esophagus. It makes it so it's a "one-way street." Things go down, but NOTHING can come up. It means he'd never throw up, reflux, etc. You get the idea. Not without its risks, but better than what we've got going now. So, for now, we try the medicine, and pray it works. We don't want surgery. It doesn't get any easier sending them away to be put to sleep. But, if it's what he needs, we'll do it.

As always, our journey is well documented in pictures. I will warn you...some are beyond pitiful. But, he is mostly back to himself today. Smiling, talking, playing, and laughing out loud, but still sleeping a lot too.

Please keep praying for our sweet baby!! I hate seeing him in pain!

The big lump on his head is the IV. He was so dehydrated, it's the only place they could find a vein. He has little "holes" and bruises all over his ankles, feet, hands, arms,  and neck. Pitiful. This is what he looked like for all of the day, and into the night.

When we turned the TV on, we saw this. Then we clicked the yellow button...

...and saw this. How cute!

Starting to wake up...finally!!

Flirting with the nurses. :)

The red light monitors oxygen saturation. It absolutely DROVE HIM BANANAS. He worked all night trying to get it off. And, eventually found success. When he finally got it off, he smiled, and looked at me like "did you see that...i did it." It was so cute.

After they took that tube out this morning,  and he calmed down, he was all smiles, and talked to everyone. (For the record, taking that tube out was AWEFUL!!)

And, just so he doesn't have that giant lump on his head in all of them, here's just a sweet picture.

Again, thank you all for your continued prayers!!  I'll keep you posted. And, I hope to be back in a couple of days with another post. We've had a lot of firsts to report about! :)