April update

So Sawyer had a scope test on Monday to measure the distance between the ends of his upper and lower esophagus. They are approximately 1 cm apart, so surgeons are starting to talk about repair. Sawyer's surgeon is a genius (and won Doctor of the Year this year), so I'm really confident that he'll do his very best with Sawyer's case. Instead of repairing him conventionally, the surgery team wants to fix him with magnets! Imagine that. With one magnet in the upper pouch and one in the lower pouch, the magnets with bring the two together, and over time will force the tissue to meld together. Brilliant! Never heard of it in my life, but it's been done in Japan to fix intestinal and anal atresia. It will be the first case at Primary Children's, so we're all kind of anxious, hoping it really works. So, to illustrate better, this is a normal esophagus

 

And Sawyer has an esophagus like this

 After 3 months of waiting and growing, the two ends are finally almost touching. Surgery is on the schedule for next week sometime. It takes about 3-4 weeks to completely connect on its own. Until then.....we'll just keep busy being the cool kids in the NICU.