Mr. Gage has been doing very well this past week. Shortly after his valve replacement, Gage got his G Tube put in. The GI team in Boston felt that Gage didn't need the Fundo procedure which was a bit of a relief. For a couple days after the G Tube surgery Gage had us all worried when he was showing signs of blood loss in his diaper and in his vomit. The doctors backed off on the blood thinners for a short period and also opened his G Tube to allow any old blood from the surgery to drain out.
That seemed to do the trick and now Gage is just healing. He is back to his very happy smiley self. Hopefully within the next week or two, Gage will get to come home. As far as we know, he just needs his INR to come up a little more and then he'll be discharged. Gavin and I have been fortunate enough to Face Time with Gage and Gage gets a kick out of seeing us too. It amazes me how seeing us on an iPad doesn't seem to confuse him at all.
Gage communicates with us as if we were right there next to him. He really gets excited when Gavin talks to him. He misses his brother very much.