Just out of surgery!

He is out of surgery and doing well. We will be able to go in and see him in a few minutes. Gabriel did really well - they were actually able to close all of the skin and most of the muscle (they originally didn't think they would be able to close muscle). His blood gas was great and they barely came up on the ventilator at all - which isn't what they expected, they expected to need to come up quite a bit. We'll have to see if that changes. They also changed his central line and changed the left chest tube, which had been in a week. So all THAT is good, but he is still putting out too much fluid from the chest tubes. They had it analyzed over the weekend and he is leaking lymphocytes (white blood cells). Dr. Rouse said it was from a chylothorax (I need to google that) which sometimes happens after repair of the CDHs. It is a serious finding that they will watch closely and could really slow down his recovery. He can't tube feed or come off of the ventilator until that is under control. Always something eh? They are going to try a medicine that may help this heal itself, but if it doesn't improve in a few days, they will have to take him back to the OR to try and see if they can repair it that way. OK, we are going to go see him, we'll write more later (and my Mom is on the phone!)