After a long day of waiting, Luke was finally taken down to the surgical floor around 4:15pm Monday. We were given our beeper (so they could notify us when he's in recovery), and we went to the cafeteria for dinner.
Around 7:30 or so, the surgeon came out to speak with us and said that things could not have gone better. They stapled off (16 staples) the problematic section at the top of his left lung, then did he pleurodesis by irritating the lung and cavity by scraping it and applying talc. This will allow the lung, when re-inflated, to stick to the cavity wall via scar tissue, thus minimizing the chances of future collapses.
In the recovery room, Luke was in a lot of pain and the xrays showed that his lung had not fully re-inflated. We waited an hour or two, did more xrays and they decided to send him back to his room to sleep and will re-evaluate things in the morning.
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