Cameron will be having a surgery called a Toupet Fundoplication on June 11 to wrap his stomach around his esophagus enough to relieve him of his reflux and the other problems it is causing him.
This is a drastic measure that we are of course scared to do but it's time this baby gets some relief. He has been in pain his whole life around the clock and it has caused major feeding/sleeping/breathing problems and has started to really affect his personality. We don't want to be the parents who live in fear just waiting around and hoping it gets better while our son is writhing and screaming in pain every day. His surgeon explained some problems with his anatomy that no one else has seen (due to prematurity) that he can fix with a newer technique procedure than what Brody had when he had his GI surgery so recovery should not be the nightmare that Brody's was last January. We are happy to be taking action as we have done everything else in the world to try to tackle this from a non surgical route but now it's time. He could be in the ICU from 2 days to a week and have very little in the way of nursing coverage for Brody while I am with Cam so logistics will be very tricky but we will figure it out like we always do...
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