Surgical Follow-Up

Today was Jonah's surgical follow-up. We'll have these once a year to make sure his diaphragm is intact and everything looks good. My mom went with me and I'm glad of it. My husband is still trying to build up vacation time but it was helpful to have another set of hands (and ears).

We arrived and went right to radiology to get a chest x-ray done. It was pretty awful watching them sandbag Jonah to the table, twisting his arms above his head and use masking tape to make sure he held still. He cried! I tried to soothe him from behind the table 4 foot away but the radiologist techs told me to let him scream...it made for a better picture. Cruel! But they were mercifully quick. Not looking forward to when Jonah gets older, how to you convince a 2 year old to stay there?

On to the appointment. We met with Dr. Lal as Dr. Aiken was out of the office. He looked at the x-ray and told us everything appeared good but had no answers for the questions I had. He finally just let me look at the x-ray myself (not that I knew what I was looking at) and said there really wasn't any way to predict how Jonah would do long-term but that the indications looked good. Wait and see...that's all we can do.