Day one was a...

...SUCCESS! Dr. Dixon was doing "cartwheels" after he heard how last night went. Max handled everything very well and the chest xray showed NO fluid around his lungs, BUT it did show something. Max can never let anything just go fine and dandy, so he decided to push a piece of his bowel into his chest cavity. The surgeon said that he thinks it probably happened when the nissen was performed. As that hole was healing after the last PD run, somehow a loop of bowel got up in there and it healed that way. So, the doctors are going to continue with the PD trial, but be a little more cautious on the volumes that they put in there. Dr. Dixon said that it is something that will have to be fixed at some point, but as of right now it's not causing any trouble so they're going to leave it be. If they end up having to fix it now, we will have to stop PD for several months to let it heal. *sigh*

So, the plan for this evening is as follows:

We will be starting him on my most favorite piece of equipment tonight... the cycler. They will be filling him with 140mL's of dianeal fluid and we'll see how it goes. The plan is to start him on it at 8:00 this evening until sometime in the morning. Pray that this machine doesn't alarm at us ALL night long like it did the last time he was on it. Most importantly, please keep him in your prayers that everything continues to go "swimingly" and he doesn't spring any leaks.

I'll keep you all posted.

PS
Enjoy this 75 degree beautiful day and think of me while I am sitting in this extremely boring hospital room :o) Enjoy your weekend everyone!