4:15 Monday

All is well here....Above, Benjamin after he returned from the recovery room...preferring the security of his buggy over the unfamiliar hospital crib.  He was in the OR for about 2 hours and it ended up being a very good decision. He had a large section of bowel that had herniated and definitely needed to be set free. The surgeon reports that all of his bowel still looked healthy, so there wasn't a need to remove any....we're very thankful for that.  The portion that was trapped will take some time to recover so I don't know what we're looking at in terms of the hospital stay.  Didn't occur to me to ask that for now. Unfortunately the nose tube stays down until we start seeing some 'evidence' on the other end that things have resumed function.  There is also a possibility that he may need another surgery 'in a few days', but I sure hope not.  Thanks to all of you who've sent encouraging notes and offered to help in different ways. We're very blessed.  Love, janelle

PS:  I haven't heard from Krissy's school today and have decided to embrace the notion that 'no news has got to be good news'.  Maybe we should ask Jorie, Kristin's teacher to be our guest blogger.