Day 39 – The Operation
The day finally arived and we got up at 5am to get to the hospital by 6.15. Liam was great although not to keen on getting out of bed – as if we were either!
He went into surgery at about 8am surrounded by some of the best surgeons in the country. He was wrapped up in his quilt which in his words “is like having Daddy with his arms wrapped around me”. We have had an update at about 11.30 to say the tumour is all out and they were beginning the reconstruction. All is going well so far. Steve and I are about to head back out to the Hutt, so will update again when I have a chance.
Becs x
Liam has come through the operation really well. The surgery took 8 hours which was a lot less time than they expected. He has been transferred to ICU where he is under a mild sedation and will remain that way for the evening and most of the morning tomorrow, although he turned his head towards me when he heard my voice. He has lots of tubes and monitors, and has a feeding tube in his nose and a tube in his mouth to help him breath. We were allowed in with him after they got him settled so have been sitting with him for a while, but he is about to get a chest xray, so we are back out in the family room.
The surgeon was very happy with the way things went, they took out a few lymph nodes which looked a bit suss but they have all come back clear. They gave me his incisor tooth in a container so he could give it to the tooth fairy, but of course you need to believe to receive! He has kept his one front tooth but the rest have gone. They did the surgery through a small incision in his eyelid and through his mouth so he has minimal scaring on his face. He has a wee tube in his tear pocket as that was infected with tumour and that will stay there for a few months and then be removed – probably about the same time as they do the construction of his jaw for his teeth I would imagine.
He is pretty swollen and it is difficult to see him like this, but he is wrapped up in his quilt and we are doing okay.
Thanks for your wishes and messages, we are now looking forward to getting into the childrens ward and out of ICU.
Becs and Jasper
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