Surgery recovery update #8...the last one :)

Summer is even cute when she cries

You can see how little she still is :)

Grandpa Norris held Summer for the first time Sept. 20...if you look out the window you can see the bouncy balls that someone worked hard to get there from the 2nd floor to the 4th floor...they have been there for a few weeks...too bad we can't play with them :)

The last week the docs have just been watching Summer's progress. She has still been improving. At this point, she has gone way down on her morphine, and her incision is healing nicely. There is only a small amount of it left to seal at the surface. Her intestines are trying to work and she can feel it...when I was holding her the other day, she got a little fussy and was arching her back and wiggling a lot. I put her back in her bed and she did it some more, then tooted. Okay, I know we tell our kids not to use potty talk, butt (ha ha) with Summer it's going to be all about bowels...it's great news for her ! I can't imagine how uncomfortable it must be for her.

Pretty in Pink...yikes did I just say that?

At 10 weeks Summer is 6 lbs. 2 ounces

Summer is getting chubby but still has little legs

You have to admit this profile is pretty impressive :)

Today the surgeons had her scheduled for an x-ray. Her nurse told me they practically had her strung up by her toenails just to get her in the right position for it. Summer sucked on her binky like crazy and held the nurses thumb tightly. They sent a solution through the bowel and watched it. Good news! She doesn't have a fistula, no air leakage, AND the intestines sent the solution all the way through successfully, yeah :) After all she had to deal with after surgery, it was successful after all.

Summer is very happy wrapped up and cozy

The next step is to lower her oxygen from high flow to low, then she can be moved to a regular room finally. At this point they should start feeding her any day through a feeding tube. They will start off very slowly with about 1cc an hour, then go from there. As soon as everything is figured out and she is off the oxygen, we can take her home....I can't believe we are almost there!