Mallie Bean

Mallie Bean

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Surgery scheduled

Just talked with Surgery and as of now its set for 10:30ish tomorrow morning.  give or take they said but that is the plan.  Surgery will be the same as before in the style of open and they will assess when they get in there.  Depends on the situation they find once they open her up on how they will fix the problem.  He will remove as much scar tissue as he can while in there in the hopes that this will not happen the future.  Also will look for any more areas that could be suspect.  Not sure how long it will take but the recovery will be about the same as last time.  But this time they have her hooked up to a central line with TPN and lipids.  So this gives her all the nutrition she needs until she can eat fully.  THANK GOD - hopefully she won't lose any weight and if the cards are played right she will gain:)  She is currently hooked to this now and thankfully it helps with hunger - so she is not a screaming mad baby.  One good thing is that as she gets older the chances of this happening again become slimmer and slimmer.  Something about the scar tissue and how much she makes now decreases as she gets older.  The scary thing is she said today she sometimes operates on kids 3 or 4 times for this - hopefully this will not be the case for Mallie.  I am going to head down to get some delish cafeteria food and then come back and wait for Steve to get here.  Talk to everyone tomorrow!  Wish us luck!

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