Thursday, August 30, 2012

So they took her back for her surgery at 7:30 this morning. At 1:30pm, Dr. Dutta came out and explained the complication.  She had scar tissue that had fused the omentum to the fat surrounding the colon from her appendectomy a few years ago.  In order to harvest the omentum, he would need to cut out part of her colon and resect it. . . . . . . . . Okay . . . . . . . small freak out, but then good to go.  Procedure finished up about 3:30 and Dr. Dutta again said, that it is critical that her resected colon have a chance to heal. If it leaks or becomes infected, she will have a colostomy bag for a couple of months while it heals. . . . . . . . Okay . . . . . little bigger freak out, but good to go.  Dr. Steinberg comes in and tells us how successful the tranposition to the left frontal lobe went.  He was very pleased and expects great results from it in preventing her stroke and tia activity.  GREAT!!!! . . . . . feelings of relief.  Then I see her, 4 incisions, swollen neck. Large suture line in a T across her head. Swollen eyes and bladder.  Can't pee and her tummy hurts.  The pulled the catheter out to see if she would pee.  If she doesn't pee in the next 5 minutes, they are putting another catheter in.  She can have NOTHING by mouth until she passes gas and they hear bowel sounds. NOTHING, not even an ice chip. Stick a fork in this chick cuz her days of hangin loose in the PICU are over.  I am so ready to blow this popsicle stand and go back to land of the normal. I am ready for Allison to NEVER HAVE to do this again.  She has been so strong and so brave for so long, it gives me pain to watch her go through this all over again.

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