recovering from lip surgery

Samuel came through his lip surgery this morning well. He is rather uncomfortable, but is responding well to morphine. During this round of general anesthesia we had several procedures combined: tubes placed in his ears (successfully), lip repair, check for choanal atresia (negative) and hearing test (ABR: left ear - no brain activity; right ear - some). The whole thing lasted less than four hours - which, ironically is more than the amount of sleep we got last night. It seemed like Samuel knew somehow that he was getting ready for a long nap in the morning, so he decided to stay up much of last night.

At any rate, we haven't gotten a definitive word yet on discharge, but we are almost already back up to full feeds again - which is a good thing.

For those of you that would want to see a picture of Samuel's new look, see below. Know that it is a picture taken just a few hours after surgery, so he's a little swollen and bloody. You will also notice the new stylin' haircut - thank you, Aunt Lori!

Thank you for your prayers for us.