Last night Luke wanted to try pizza again, so we called our friends at Round Table and got it delivered to the hospital. He ate pizza, breadsticks and rootbeer, and seemed to do fine with it all.......until he got his meds a couple of hours later. Oh well.
We met with the surgical team again this morning and we discussed the decision of waiting for the lung to seal up on its own versus the option of going back in for another surgery. The attending surgeon said that going back in is ill-advised and if it was his son, he would not entertain this option right now. Their concern is that since the pleurodesis (promotes the sticking of the lung to the chest wall through scar tissue) was done on Monday, then going back in for surgery would end up being very traumatic to the lung and to Luke. They feel that eventually the body will most likely heal itself, but it is hard to put a time frame on that process.
Not much is expected to happen this weekend....just more waiting. Luke is getting out of bed a couple of times a day and sitting in a chair next to his bed.
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