Nathan has walked the hallways twice today without any assistance. Christa took him down the B wing from his room, through the lobby, into the C wing and back. I arrived while they were gone; it was quite a surprise to see him walking back in, holding nothing but a leash attached to a rolling dinosaur toy. It really tuckered him out though, he fell asleep on my lap for a couple hours afterwards.
I took him back out for more walking this evening, through the A and C wings. He did great and got plenty of attention from the nurses. We're back in the room again watching Kiki's Delivery Service. I also emptied his ostomy bag and gave him a Lovenox shot tonight. Now nobody (Christa) can accuse me of never having done either. ;-)
One item of disappointment... they've been giving Nathan small amounts of formula, but his body hasn't been processing much, if any. He's passing basically everything he's taking in, which means he's going to have to rely on TPN for his nutrition. We were really hoping he'd be able to drink more formula, but it's not looking like it's going to happen. The surgeon stopped in today and mentioned that worst case, they would do his next surgery on November 20. But that's only if they must perform surgery early... they would rather hold off longer to let his intestines heal as much as possible.
The holiday seasons are going to be difficult this year. Oh well, gotta keep on keepin' on.
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