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Update: Garrett was sedated and the surgeon was able to manipulate and reduce his stoma. He’s going to be admitted and they’re moving up his revision surgery to tomorrow.


He’s awake now and a little out of it.



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Garrett’s in the emergency department with a severely prolapsed stoma  


He was already scheduled for surgery this Thursday to have his stoma revised, as he has been prolapsing whenever he does any running or physical activity. Being six, he’s active a lot, so 1-3 prolapses a day has been his life for the past 5 weeks.


Unfortunately, he prolapse today and we were unable to to reduce it. We’re now in the ED, he just had an x-ray, and I’m waiting to talk to the surgical team about what to do next.

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