Exciting Update About Robert

On Monday 9-15-2014, Robert's Aunt Arline drove me, him and his favorite day nurse N to an appointment at Childrens Hospital in Seattle. We were initially only there to get his bi-monthly silver nitrate treatment under his traech ties on the stoma. Arline waited outside because she didn't want to distract him. She encouraged me by saying...."You got this Ace, you're his Mamma". While inside, I asked the question on everybody's minds. "When Robert was born, we were told he could get the traech out when he was 2 or 3 years old. Seeing as how he is almost 2, when can we expect that to happen?" At first Doctor P said..."Wow Mrs. Caldwell, I'm surprised you remembered that. I was hoping you were coming to this appointment so I could tell you about the procedure and how it will work". He said, "Robert is an ideal candidate for that surgery and they will start the process next spring." The procedure is very in-depth, while being under anesthesia they will take a piece of cartilage from his rib and insert it into his esophagus to manually widen his throat. The recovery time in the hospital will be 7-10 days. Then he will come home still with his traech and a stent for about a month. He will go back in to be re-evaluated to make sure that the procedure took and at that time the traech will come out. Way to go little man!!!!!