After waiting for a couple hours and persistantly asking if the scan had been read yet, I decided to get out of the hospital and drive home for a couple of hours. Fifteen minutes after arriving in Lansing, I received a phone call from Abigail's mother indicating they were doing an emergency operation on Gabrielle to fix an intussusception. I immediately drove back, but they had already started the operation. During this surgery they would be going back into the same incision they made in her abdomen during the original surgery. They would manually work the intestine back out of itself and fix any perforation (which there was) that were caused by pulling the intestine back out of itself.
She spiked another high fever after surgery and had me up all night staring at her pulse which at times hovered around 170 beats per minute. We are now playing the same waiting game, watching for her to have a bowel movement. Once she has a couple in a row we know that her gut is working properly and we can remove the NG tube that runs from her nose to her gut and drains the bile from her stomach and start feeding her again.
I sometimes feels like we are constantly doing the one step forward two step back thing. As soon as we get a bit of good news we find out some new set of information that sets her back. So the newest to the list is Gabs has very low hemoglobin (oxygen carring component of red blood cells) from the surgeries and from the lab work that is drawn from her everyday. Her bone marrow is not able to keep up with production, so they were discussing another blood transfusion (she has had 3, all during surgery). However, we spoke with a blood specialist tonight and they are going to try to stimulate her own production with medication first before transfusing.
That brings us up to date for today. We are still not happy with this back brace and the company that has made it, that will be another story another day. Thanks for keeping us in your prayers.