Thanks for praying....Ron is feeling much better today! He's had no fever and white blood count is back down! He felt well enough to do PT today which was very good since he hasn't had PT for the last two days.
Wound Vac has been removed, wound is not totally closed but almost! Enough to where they feel comfortable with another type of dressing that is much easier on him.
They did an X-ray today as a precaution since he had such a problem with the feeding. His G-tube (gastric tube draining stomach) has a feeding tube attached to it (internally) and the x-ray revealed that this feeding tube has turned upward and is in his esophagus....reason why he's been having so much reflux and gagging! Either this evening or tomorrow morning they will have to put a new G-tube in. But, they will probably have to leave the old one in for a while, since it went through the colon they don't want to take a chance of disturbing the healing process of the hole there. They will actually pull it out of the stomach but leave it in the colon. Dr. Parikh will do all of this down in Interventional Radiology under fluoroscopy (using some type of contrast that allows the stomach to look white, so I'm told) They can rotate him around as they are watching to get things in the right position to do the procedure.
Please pray things will go smoothly when they do the procedure to replace the G-tube. And that he will continue to move forward without any setbacks.
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