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Yep, we all are as of this afternoon. Young master Matthew has once again breezed through surgery with flying colours. So much so, they transferred him out of the ICU and into the surgical ward early this evening. He was originally planned to stay the night up there, but he seems to have recovered so quickly they thought they might as well send him off to the more casual ward.

It turns out that Matthew has much reason to be breathing easier too, the cyst they removed was blocked more than 50% of his airway. After coming round and an hour or so of being really grumpy Matthew was back to his normal antics of wooing the nurses with his cute looks (he gets that from his father ) and cheeky tube grabbing. The ICU itself was pretty quiet, with only Matthew and one other patient in there, so that meant that he was sure to get plenty of attention.

Whilst they were in the neighbourhood, they also decided that they’d remove Matthew’s adenoids to ensure that he has the clearest possible airway. In fact, tonight when i said goodnight to him and Mum, Matthew was holding extremely good numbers on the pulse oximeter (better than when he was admitted this morning).

The only slightly bad news today is that there were actually two cysts in his epiglotic region. They removed the large one, however they had to leave the smaller of the two as if they removed both, there was a chance that the two scar areas would fuse and cause a bigger obstruction. We’ll be following up with the ENT department in a few months to make sure that the cyst isn’t causing any issues. (If it is, they’ll simply get in and remove that one too). The good thing is that the remaining cyst is so small it’s not going to cause any issues with intubation for the ileostomy reversal surgery (which we don’t yet have a date for, but expect in about a month).

March 15th, 2010 | Category: Uncategorized | Subscribe to comments | Both comments and pings are currently closed