About 4 hours later they called us over to NICU to follow them down to the operating room and sign some releases for anesthesia, then whisped him away. They had us wait in the waiting room of the NICU just in case they needed an immediate blood donation from one of us and just to know where we were so they can come talk to us after all was done.
Within about an hour and half the surgeon came and told us how it went. Her original goal was to get all of the bowl completely back inside of him and get him all ready to come home. Sadly, his bowl was so swollen that she wasn't able to get any more in at all. She thinks that the blood vessels (his life-line at the moment) that are keeping the intestines alive were getting squished inside the 'silo' due to the awkward shape of the inflamed intestines. They were allowing blood to enter, but it looked as if blood was not able to leave the bowl and thus the deep red and purple color that the doctor was seeing. So being the skilled doctor she is, she was able to create a make-shift 'silo' that now sits flat horizontally against his body (the same way your arm would if you had it in a sling in front of you) instead of how it was in a rod shape right above him (as if a giant rod was poking straight through his middle). She thinks this will alleviate the pressure on the blood vessels there so they can function correctly. We are all praying that she is right.
From this point the surgeon told us that she can really only play it by ear. We will just have to keep a close watch on him to see when she will be able to go back in and work on it. The sooner the better.
Thank you everyone who has been praying for us, Rowan, and all his Doctors and Nurses! Please continue to do so, he has a long road ahead and we feel that he has already been helped greatly from above. Thank you all
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