My little trooper

As you know, Izaiah has been very sick and in a lot of pain. He finally decided that he fought as long as he could and was too tired to do it anymore. His body shut down. He completely stopped breathing and had no ambition to start. They had to bag him and breath for him for quite a while and they finally were able to intubate him. The doctors decided that something needed to be done (finally) because he has been too sick for too long and it was only getting worse. He had an ultrasound done on his abdomen to see if maybe he had an abscess. The ultrasound showed nothing but air. They decided he needed to have a cat scan to get a better look. They are unable to do those at the university so the life flight team came over, loaded him up and we made our way to Primary's. When the doctor looked at the results he determined he had a perforation of the bowel somewhere and he needed to go to surgery right away. In about an hour and a half he was taken to the operating room and we were sent to wait. We waited for a little over two hours and the surgeon finally came to tell us what had been done. He found some strictures on his left side where he had had "nec" and removed about 5 cm of dead bowel. He thought the perforation was on his right side so he cut the area and inserted a colostomy bag. (which he will need another surgery in 6-8 weeks to remove and re close the bowel) He also found something that nobody anticipated. Zai had Malrotation of the intestines. Malrotation is a birth defect where the intestines don't rotate and twist like they are suppose to and the appendix is not located where it should be. The surgeon fixed what he could and had to remove his appendix as well. We are so lucky that he had surgery and they found out he had Malrotation because if they would have left everything like it was and he got appendicitis when he was older he would have died. He was given his fifth blood transfusion and sent to recovery. We now make our home at the Primary Children's Hospital. He is doing so much better already! He is still sedated but even so, he looks wonderful! This morning we found out that the doctors are a little concerned about his liver. His levels look suspicious for possible liver failure, which is the result of not eating for so long and having medicated fluids being fed through an IV. We won't know how severe it is until they start feeding him again. Once they start, his liver will either get better or get worse. Hopefully it repairs itself. Worse case scenario, Christopher or I will give him a part of our liver. For the time being, he is comfortable and in no pain. That's all I could ask for!