Surgery

This morning Garrett will have diversion surgery; he'll be living with an ileostomy again.

Sadly, the IV antibiotics did not reduce Garrett's inflammation, and he continues to feel sick and is in a lot of pain. It's quite the unfortunate turnaround from the beginning of last week when we thought he was improving and would be discharged.

Like before, this is a "temporary" diverting ileostomy, meaning they can reverse it at some point like they did last summer. However, it will take a year or so for us to see how his body responds to medications and what the path forward looks like at that point. In the meantime, we'll focus on making Garrett healthy again and getting him back into the activities he's been missing since January.

I won't lie, it's not the outcome we hoped for. But, it's where we are and we'll move forward as a family.