Garrett is Out of Surgery

Garrett's repair surgery is complete.  Garrett was brought back to his room around 5:00 p.m. 

Good Parts:  They were able to do the repair with tiny incisions using the laprascopic type tools.  Garrett came through surgery well.  He is heavily sedated so he is comfortable.  Which makes me very at ease.

A little disappointing part:  They did have to put in a patch to help close the diaphram.  Sometimes they are able to close it without a patch.  How I look at it is pretty simple:  If Dr. Yang felt the need to use a patch than I am sure it was needed.  The patch will forever be in Garrett and a reminder of what he went through his first few weeks of life.  The left lung appears to be about only about half a lung.  We will see how much it can inflate now that all the extra organs are out of its way.

We are no where near out of the woods with our little CDH Fighter.  The repair surgery is one of the small steps these babies take on their road to recovering from a severe birth defect.  Now that the surgery is complete however, we can move even farther down the path to get Garrett healthy, happy and HOME!