In Surgery...PRAY!!!!!!!

Micah went into surgery at 4:58pm. They are still attaching lines and prepping his pace maker. The surgeon, Dr. Fishman, came to explain what is going on. There is a hole in Micah's bowel, but they don't know where. This is going to be an exploratory surgery until they find the hole. Then they will remove the section that has the hole and reattach the two ends. The doctors think the hole may be closer to his stomach so the surgeon said they may have to close off that part of his stomach and reattach the intestine elsewhere in his stomach. The surgeon said that he will do everything possible to fix this safely and with NO ADDITIONAL strain on his heart. Because of the infection, the is a lot of pressure in the right side of his heart and this makes this operation VERY HIGH risk. Whatever happens with the repair they are going to clean out all of the bile and other secretions that have spilled into his abdomen. The surgery will probably take more than 2 hours.