Dressed for success.

OK so I’m getting really bad with our blog here. I apologize and will seek to do better! Anyway Greyson had surgery today, Monday, to resect his trachea. As you can see he came dressed for success. Basically they went in and cut out about an inch and a quarter of his trachea. This included part of his cricoid ring (if you know what that is) and all of his trachea from there to below where his trachesotomy tube was. They then sewed these two sections back together.
Everything went well and Greyson is once again trach free!!! Now we have to wait and see how things heal. Since the surgery went well there are two primary issues we have to wait and see about. The first is if there was any damage to his vocal cord nerves during the surgery. This is not expected but because these nerves run along the back side of the trachea there is always a chance this could happen (again we don’t expect this, and have amazing surgeons but still have to wait to hear him talk to know for sure). The second complication that could develop is that the scar tissue which will develop grows to much into his airway and blocks his airway once again. While this could happen it is not expected either. We also know that God is in control and believe that Greyson is going to heal nicely and we are going to be able to move foward trach free!
Currently Greyson is resting pretty peacefully. He is on a ventilator and will be until Friday to allow his body to heal. Once they take him off the ventilator we will have a better idea how things are healing up. Thanks for keeping Greyson, and his parents, in your prayers!