Yet another setback..

It's beginning to feel like Thomas will never come home with his parents. Last night, Thomas had another saturation test done overnight and this morning, the nurses were all set to send him home. Unfortunately, the doctors decided otherwise. They feel that the desaturations that are occuring during his feeding times are too numerous and too low. The cause is still Reflux and although they have the acid in his stomach under control, he is still vomiting up some of his food and this is causing the problem. They are now preparing to add a thickener to his milk to try and stop his vomits. They will then carry out another test next week to see if this makes a difference.

If this doesn't work then the only other alternative is to operate on his oesophegus and tighten up the muscle between this and his stomach. Obviously this is not what we wanted to hear after all he's been through and would be quite a serious setback as it would probably take some time to re-establish his feeding and no doubt have a long recovery time. As before though, all we can do is be positive and hope that it won't get this far.