Surgery Day (III)

Ethan's surgery to remove the epibulbar dermoid was today. According to the ophthalmologist, all went well and there were no surprises during the procedure. The entire procedure was scheduled for 45 minutes. This includes time to sedate, intubate, and the actual procedure itself. It actually took over 2 hours (over 3 hours if you include the fact that they were running about 1 hour behind schedule). Apparently it took 1.5 hours just to intubate him. The anesthesiologist has yet to talk to Dina to discuss what issues/problems they had (I am staying at home with Jonathan and Dina spent the night with Ethan during his sleep study last night and will be staying overnight at Children's with Ethan tonight).

It's a good thing that this is most likely the last surgery for a few (several?) years (when they will address the jaw) as each successive surgery seems to come with more and more issues during intubation.

The ophthalmologist says that it looks much better now that the dermoid has been removed but we won't see the results for ourselves until sometime tomorrow when the bandages will be removed.

We won't know the results of the sleep study for quite some time (possibly up to 2 weeks or more) but it seems that they got a good study (i.e. enough good quality data) and that we won't have to come back and repeat it.

Ethan back in the room after surgery.

Ethan will all the sensors strapped to him for the sleep study.

- bob