As we arrived in Peter's room today, we found Dr. Overman finishing up the changing of Peter's chest bandage. He told us that the chyle leak on the left his dried up. Right now they want to work on the fluids Peter is retaining. Once that clears up, he said he believes they will have to do another pleurodesis (operation) on his right side. This is going to be a very long haul: we are likely looking at August already before Peter is anywhere near likely to come home. Please pray for us that we may have patience and strength to deal with this slow movement.
Peter had a relatively calm day today--but most of that was induced by medication. First he received a sedative when the dressing on the chest was changed, and then he made a big fuss later on and the nurse had to make him calm down. He remains quite bloated because of the fluids he is retaining.
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We are continuing to pray that Peter's leak would stop. We miss you at VBS, and you are always in all of our thoughts. We hope you are still in Minnesota in 4 years, and we can then say, now Peter is old enough for VBS--remember that VBS when he was in the hospital?
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The Van Heests