Finally, an update

So sorry it has taken me so long to get an update posted. I tried several times throughout the day yesterday, but the internet kept knocking me off. Now, for a very lengthy update:
When we spoke to the anesthesiologist yesterday prior to Cooper's procedure, he told us he was not comfortable sending Cooper home after general anesthetic due to his pulmonary history.We were all happy to hear that they would be keeping him and monitoring his heart rate, respiration, and oxygen saturation all night. He was very upset before they took him back. He was so hungry; he had to go like 16 hours without nursing. They gave him an IV steroid before starting the procedure in order to reduce any inflammation and help keep his lungs as well as possible.

The procedure itself was pretty quick. The GI came in and spoke to us. He was very pleased at what he saw and said the medicine had been doing its job protecting the GI tract from damage. He saw no visible signs of an EGID (praise God), and we will have the biopsy results to confirm soon. We were refreshed on how to record his symptoms for the pH probe and expected to see Cooper soon. But, he really struggled to wake up. He was very groggy and unable to maintain his oxygen on his own. His stridor was also very bad, so they administered another steroid in his IV, and that improved. After about 3 hours, he was doing better and able to go to the step down, and we finally got to see him. He had a fever at that time, and has continued to have a low grade fever off and on since.

We got up to our room at about 5pm yesterday. Cooper was incredibly sleepy and slept most of the early evening. We tried to get him up to play around 8, and he did a little bit. But, he was certainly not himself. Around 9, thing got noisy. He was uncomfortable and unhappy. He cried/screamed off and on for most of the night. He finally slept for around 3 hours, so we all were able to get a little rest.

this morning the GI came in and said we could go home today. We tried our best to let Cooper have a few hours of normalcy in order to get the most accurate probe results possible, but he was no interested. He was still too sleepy. He had the probe pulled around 11 and we left around noon.

He is still running a temp, and is no at all the "Cooper" we know. He has not got his appetite back yet, and he is still extremely groggy and tired. He will only play for a few minuets and then just wants to lay in my lap. I talked to the GI nurse, and she said if he is running 102 or higher to call. If he is not a lot brighter tomorrow, I will take him to the pedi in the morning. For tonight, we will be lazy, and he will sleep with us tonight.