Surgery is complete!

Jett was admitted to the hospital on Monday to get his lungs "tuned up" and ready for surgery for Thursday.
His surgery went well and the results are the best news we've received so far. Basically there was concern that there would not be enough functioning intestine to put back together and absorb enough nutrients to grow and thrive. After letting the intestines heal and grow over the past 5 months, there is now plenty of intestine. The surgeon was able to piece together a few sections of intestine so now he has one long, continuous bowel like anyone else (minus the part they removed in the first surgery). He no longer will be considered to have short gut syndrome.

The recovery will be lengthy because they will introduce food very slowly to make sure all parts of the newly created intestine work. Meanwhile he is still receiving IV nutrients through his central line. During surgery they also placed a G-tube which is a tube that goes from his stomach to the outside of his abdomen. THis will allow us to feed him when he is not interested. The G-tube may be something he has for many years to allow for supplementing his diet during sleep at night. This is a typical treatment for the malabsorption problem from the CF. Most kids with the same genetic mutation require the Gtube throughout adolescence.

THank you to everyone for your thoughts and prayers. We are very thankful for everyone that has been following his recovery and so grateful that he has received such a great prognosis!!