Grayson Checking into Primary Children's Hospital

At 12:00 noon on Tuesday, June 17th, Grayson is admitted into Primary Children's Hospital. Here is Grayson weighing in and kickin back playing video games

Since we were at Primary Childrens last, they have rethemed the Hospital in an Ocean theme. They have the floor inlaid with waves and ocean creatures. The walls and ceilings are painted with nice sky, clouds, and birds. It is much more pleasant than the previous theme.

They are going clean out his bowel in preparation for the surgery. Since the medicine to do this is nasty tasting (even though Pineapple flavored) they find that using a feeding tube is easier. So, they will shortly insert a feeding tube.

A little bit of history/recap for everyone. Grayson was born with Spina Bifida and this usually causes bowel and bladder problems. So, at this point in his life we are working on the bladder issues. His medication to control leakage is no longer working. Along with this, he has grown out of the largest size pull-ups that they produce. He/we would love to be out of pull-ups due to his age and the whole social situation. So, the next step is Bladder neck reconstruction surgery. They will also augment the bladder with material taken from his bowel in order to increase the capacity of his bladder. After the surgery, he should be continent! Yeah!