Dallas's surgery has been scheduled for Thursday, October 27th at 9:15am.  He will have the Ladd procedure (to correct the malrotated intestine) and also have the port placed.  The Ladd portion of the surgery will involve taking his appendix out and then tacking down(for lack of a better word) his large intestine so that it is not at risk for twisting (a normal intestine tacks itself down during the first 4-7 weeks in utero).  Dallas's intestine is currently floating around and his body has made an attempt to tack itself down by creating useless "bands" near the top of the intestine.  These bands will need to be removed which causes such a significant amount of swelling, it takes several days for the intestine to recover and begin functioning again.

The surgery itself is scheduled for 2.5 hours.  His hospital stay is estimated to be about a week.  If things go perfectly, his stay could be as short as 4 or 5 days.