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  Connor's G-tube is out! · January 15, 2010

I called the surgeon's office earlier this week to cancel Connor's "surgery" appointment that we made to take his G-tube out because of the pneumonia diagnosis. After a few doses of his antibiotic he started to do amazingly well. He was back to eating a ton and had no GI problems with the antibiotic. I was starting to kick myself that I postponed the surgery appointment. As fate would have it, yesterday I got a reminder phone call from the surgeon's office for his appointment. The person that I talked to on the phone earlier in the week did not cancel the appointment, so we decided to keep the appointment and get his G-tube out. Connor said that he was ready for it to be gone.

 
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Big Boy!
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It will hopefully close by itself in two weeks, otherwise he call the surgeon and they will close it surgically. They said that Connor's opening was so tight that the hope is that is just closes by itself. When it all heals, I will post some "after" pictures. Right now it just is a hole with some ostomy paste over it to keep from leaking and a bandage. Connor was tough tfor the whole thing. When the surgeon picked him up to move him on the table, he struggled and said that he was definitely not "malnourshed". Connor is really packing on the pounds with all the Rice Dream ice cream.