Back to the waiting game again

It's been a week since Jonathan's marathon operation and he's been slowly recovering.

The most promising development so far is that his gut & stoma started working yesterday. We were very excited when the poo started to appear in his stoma bag - apparently the night nurses were cheering him on when they first spotted it so we're not the only ones getting excited about poo!

Apart from that it's just been a whole lot of waiting - waiting for his aspirates to decrease & have less of the green bile, waiting for the redness in what appears to be an infected stitch in his scar to die down and most importantly waiting for his belly to get less distended so that they can start feeding him again & also take him off the ventilator.

Some days the long wait seems more frustrating than on other days but hopefully the wait will be well worth it when he's feeding & off the ventilator & we can get him out of his cot for cuddles again.

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