june surgery for ian

Posted by friendsoftheadams

Hey, friends! Just a quick hello and communique that Ian’s having surgery today (planned/expected at CHOC), and we would love if your prayers could be covering him and the family today, and for the next couple of weeks.

ginger’s instagram today

The recovery and his medical needs in the immediate future are a little more complicated than previously understood (before today) and i know this has probably been discouraging for them. I won’t go into details, if Ginger feels like doing so she will.

But there’s been worse to deal with! And if all goes well this could be Ian’s last such invasive procedure for the forseeable future, so prayers, prayers, please for the doctors and protection on Ian’s body!

here are a couple pictures of hanging out with Henry today…

making train tracks…where to start!

photobombed by mousy

I’ll try to update again with a more thorough peek into how the boys and the family have been doing…very soon!

ian loves all the animals! just like his big brother.

thanks for checking in, as always. ~cnp

broviac free, and doing well

Posted by friendsoftheadams

Ginger writes:

“Ian continues to do well.

With the loss of the broviac (pics of Ian’s Broviac here), he had to get a regular IV and it didn’t draw for labs, so he has been poked three times since yesterday for bloodwork, which is not fun for anyone, especially a baby.

But encouragingly, his blood draws have been clean (meaning no bacteria has grown in the blood cultures so far) but they need to wait until tomorrow to make sure nothing has grown out, and then will plan to release him on oral antibiotics. This is much better than the long stay we anticipated in the beginning when they found bacterial infection (up to 14 days).

The plan changed when they suspected contamination in both lumens (tubes) of the broviac, which would explain the presence of bacteria growth in his blood cultures since they were drawing the blood through the lumens of the broviac. This made them think that it was isolated to the line, which led to the rush to remove it. Prior to the surgery, they did a peripheral blood draw from his arm – NOT through the line to see if it had bacteria and nothing has grown out yet, which supports the theory of it being in the broviac.

So, with the infection source known and the line out, we are happy to get out sooner! Thank you all for your love and prayers.”