A Waiting Game

A bunch of people keep asking when Zoey's surgery will be and when we will be able to come home...to be honest we really don't have a definite answer.

When Zoey is twelve weeks old the surgeon will do a study to see how big the gap is between the two ends.  If it is two vertebral bodies or less then they will more then likely be able to do the surgery to repair her esophagus.  We are really hoping and praying that this is the case.  However if the two ends are too far apart then the next step is to wait two more months when Zoey is five months old.  If by then the two ends are still not close enough together and it looks like they haven't come closer since the last study then we will have to look at other options such as building her a new esophagus out of her intestines.  Which is an option we really don't want to even think about.
The last time I talked to the surgeon though, she was fairly optimistic that when they did the study at twelve weeks that the two ends would be close enough together for her to have her repair.  So right now we are just waiting for her to get bigger and get to twelve weeks before we will know anything else.