Directly after transplant....

Our Little RockStar!

--a great OR nurse named Melissa makes specialized dressings for all the surgeries. How great is she!

So sorry to have taken a week long break from blogging. I'm trying to go in order to tell the story of Logan's transplant but it is a bit emotional still for me and honestly, I feel as though I'm still processing it a bit. It would have been great to blog while we were staying in the guestrooms of the hospital but their internet connection is very protective and apparently viewed blogger as a threat.

Anyway, after Logey's transplant, we heard that the kidney was in, Dr Al-Akash (nephrologist) and Dr Almond (transplant surgeon) came out to talk to us. It was also Dr Almond's birthday. I can guarantee we will never forget his birthday. (I asked him later if he at least had a good dinner when he got home from performing a kidney transplant on his birthday and he said he had cold spaghetti. LOL!)

We all prayed together in a circle. Then Dr Al-Akash said that I could go back and see him. On the way there he said though Logan looked great to him (because he knows what to expect) that he would probably look terrible to me. He really didn't look bad. Yet, anyway. He was a bit puffy and he was so tired and out of it. By the time I got in there to see him it was probably around 9 pm. Vidal went in to see him next and my cousin, Marilee, got to go see him as well as his Nana (my mom). She made it just after his surgery was over. I stayed with him until about 2 am and then since Vidal didn't want to go rest, I let him stay with Logan and I went to the room to sleep for a bit. I got back up there with him at about 6:30 am.

I really didn't want to leave him at all but I decided that it was best for me to get some sleep since I knew it would be a long few days. Logey really slept mostly the first night and most of the next day. The next morning Dr Al-Akash and Dr Almond came in to check on Logey and let us know that his creatinine was 0.3. It was amazing! For the first time ever, our son's creatinine was in normal range! It took less than 12 hours from his creatinine to fall from 4.9 to 0.3. At this point his urine was going pretty slow and they kept having to give him lasix. It was a bit scary and unnerving as he had tons of blood in his urine and blood coming from his pd catheter. I knew that it would happen that way but boy was it unnerving! Pastor Cynthia came by to see Logan that day.

Logey's first words after transplant were, "Ow mama!" My sweet boy. On day 2 Logey was probably even more swollen. He stopped needing the morphine sometime on day 2 as well and started trying to roll over to pull up so he could get to mommy. Logey's nurse, Tessa helped me pick him up and we laid in a chair watching Blue's Clues and sleeping off and on all day. They also started letting him have some ice chips. He really liked that! The night of day 2, Logey didn't sleep at all. His poor daddy! By day 3 he was starting to get a bit restless and wanted to play more. He started wanting to get down on the floor which of course he couldn't in the PICU. So, on day 3 in the afternoon Logey was moved to a regular room. It was great to see his 7th Tower staff and nurses. They've been with him since he was 4 1/2 months old and getting his PD cath. Excuse the crying look on his face. At this point he was nurse-a-phobic. We were released from the hospital to the guest rooms on day 4!!!!!As you can see, the boys were really excited to have their brother getting out of the hospital!