Hi Everyone - We wanted to Thank You all so much for your showering of prayers today for Jason, our family/friends and for our Surgeon and team. It's been an incredibly long, exhausting day starting at 3:45am and ending at 10:30pm. I do have some good news to report on Jason! I'll make this post brief this evening so we can all get a good night sleep and will try to send out more detail over the next day about everything that happened today.
Dr. Burrows was extremely pleased with the outcome of the surgery today! Hooray and Praise God! He came out after surgery and spent 40 minutes with my friend Brandie and I, whom I'm so incredibly grateful for her comforting presence the entire day at the hospital with me - what a trooper! Dr. Burrows said that Jason did very well and was stable throughout the entire surgery. He also shared that he was able to remove everything that needed to be removed from Jason's body that he could see with his "naked eye." So, the esophagus came out and a very large amount of lymph nodes also. Those are all being reviewed by pathology and we should find out in a week or so the results. Again, Dr. Burrows was extremely pleased with how smoothly the surgery went! And, we are so incredibly grateful for such a compassionate and amazing Doctor that we've been able to partner with.
Jason's breathing tube is now out and fortunately he will not have to go into ICU - HOORAY! He will be headed into intermediate care probably at some point in the middle of the night after a room becomes free. I left the hospital at about 9:30pm as they did not have a room to put him in yet, therefore no place for me to sleep either. So we are praying for a very good night of sleep for Jas and I tonight and will head back tomorrow AM to be with him.
Also, he was experiencing pain when he inhales, so they were trying to tweak his epidural that will be in his chest for 7 to 10 days to help with that. But if we could ask for your continued prayers for the pain to supernaturally be minimal that would be a wonderful help!
We'll keep you posted on more details as we go! Good Night : )
With Much Love In His Healing Name,
Meg
