Post Op

(This was written Thursday night, but never posted.)
Well Alegria looked well when we got to see her in recovery. Dr. Smith (the surgeon said) everything went very well. He did mention that he found and clipped a small nodule which was growing close to the exit of the stomach. He did not feel it was anything to be concerned about, but he did say that alone may have been causing gas and discomfort simply by intermittently blocking the exit and preventing the stomach from completely emptying. Once again God has directed our steps, if we had not gone ahead with the g-tube surgery, they would not have found and removed this nodule. He did also see some inflammation around the valve where the stomach and esophagus meet, so like we mentioned earlier it seems good we are getting the ng-tube out now.

Alegria is resting well at the moment. Although she is doing extremely well and overall better than last time she had anesthesia, she is definitely not without a few struggles. The first few hours were again marked by much time spent with bulb syringe as she was fighting quite a bit of mucus. Her temperature is running a bit high, so the last nurse did not want me to hold her much, concerned it would only make temperature go up higher. BUT then they gave her a dose of albuterol, and her heartrate shot up. So I finally picked her up to soothe her back to sleep and then her heartrate dropped 40 points!!

She has not yet been permitted to eat. (12 hours from the time she left surgery!) So she will get her 1st post-op meal around 2 am.

I am exhausted and having difficulty spelling and typing so I will update more later.

Thanks again for you continued prayers.

Jill