Surgery Update

Josh's surgery went well. The liver has stopped bleeding which was the main concern of the doctors. They took out all of the packs that were in his stomach to help stop the bleeding.  They did find a hematoma (kind of like a blood blister) on his bowels somewhere. They are not concerned about this and say that it should heal on its own. There will be an x-ray done on him in the morning to make sure that there are no stray packs or surgery instruments left inside. If there is something left inside there will be surgery on Sunday to retrieve it. If not, there will be surgery on Wednesday to check on the hematoma and start the process of closing Josh up.

If everything continues to go well, the doctors are hoping to start letting Josh breathe on his own. If this goes well, they are hoping to start waking him up soon. Everything is going as well as can be hoped right now.

We would like to announce that Shannon Martineau is the winner of the IPAD2 raffle at the Community Carnival that was at Red Mountain Elementary tonight. The St. John family would like to express their gratitude to everyone that bought raffle tickets, and to everyone that made the raffle possible.

Thank You.