Recovery and Requests

We forgot that things can change so quickly in the ICU. They are going well, then great, then possibly horrible, then stable, then... you get the picture. Yesterday, Mr Boy was very stable but today he's been up and down, but overall ok. A remedy for one problem creates a new problem in another place and on and on. We've had quite a few kidney scares. Just now, we had 2 surgeons and several Doctors in the room all at once, discussing the severity of current worries. Everyone thought we had about 2 scenarios which both led to emergency surgery and one which would have led to re-opening Mr Boy. But those were ruled out after a special x-ray and now its much less tense around here and everything seems ok. It's mind-boggling how fast things can change. We are so thankful that everything is fine now. I've just kinda been singing worship songs in my head and staying clam through all this because of that. We are so confident that Mr Boy is in the Lord's hands that even in these insane moments, we can be still and know that HE is God. We are not strong, but He is and He is strong when we are weak.

They use beanie babies to prop up his extremities. 

 New Prayer requests: 
1.  Mr Boy is VERY VERY swollen and hospital staff is worried the swelling could damage internal organs and inhibit healing. Pray that Mr Boy's body will release more fluids to release all the pressure on his body which is causing problems.
2. Please pray that Mr Boy will remain comfortable even when they allow him to wake.

Random things we just learned about Mr Boy's body for the first time because of the surgery (mostly just interesting for Mr Boy to read later in life and things I don't want to forget... so this may be boring for most readers):
-Mr Boy has no appendix. No Appendicitis for him in the future! :)
-His liver is enormous and takes up half of his entire abdomen, just making the surgery more difficult, but also not a big deal.
-One kidney was hiding, but they found it.
-During the surgery they decided to give Mr Boy a wrap around his esophagus to help stop reflux, so they took his stomach and wrapped part of it around his esophagus. This is pretty standard procedure for reflux but it still sounds insane/crazy/cool to me.

The Orthopedic surgeon moved his external fixator (metal contraption) to aim the other direction today.