Surgery

Turn of events- after resolution of the intussusception, they were all ready to discharge us from the hospital attributing it to an idiopathic cause. However, after meeting with the pediatric surgeon, Dr. Hoover, he explained to us that intussusception in a child this young was rare and just to be on the safe side, had us do one more ultrasound to check for another rare congenial abnormality, a duplication cyst, that can cause intussusception. Well it turns out he was right! And we thank God he was our doctor and he cared enough to check, because had he not, we would have been back with more serious issues in the future. So Chase had his surgery on Friday (28 days old) to remove the 5cm duplication cyst found on his small intestines and his appendix was also removed (just because he was there). He has a small incision just above his belly button. Before & After surgery: