Incision site

It is now Thursday. Adam has been here for a full week. He has started passing gas and having bowel movements today...so hopefully he'll be able to at least take in liquids tomorrow! His belly is sore both inside and at the incision site, but he is feeling pretty well. He hasn't been nauseated...so that is a huge plus!

Surgery

Today is Tuesday...Adam has been in the hospital since Thursday. He had the drain in for a few days with no improvements...so we opted for surgery. Dr. P was going to try and do it laproscopically...but once he got in there he realized he couldn't do it safely. The adhesion formed a band around the small intestine. He also removed a few other adhesions that looked like they could possibly pose a problem. Adam was in a great deal of pain after surgery. It took a few hours to get him comfortable. He is on Deladid and Toradol. They offered an epidhural this morning..but he hasn't needed it. He has already gotten up to walk, had a sponge bath, and freshened up. Once things start moving he can start eating again.


This is the miserable drain.


This is what is at the end of the miserable drain.


This is Adam just a few hours after surgery!

Blockage

It has been only 2 months since Adam's take-down surgery. He has a blockage...about a foot into his small intestine. He is back at the hospital. They placed a NG tube down his nose to try and drain some of the fluid.

His trouble started about 2 weeks ago. Stomach irritation, occasional vomiting, acid reflux, etc. Then a couple nights ago he awoke with pretty severe stomach pain. We took him to the ER in the afternoon. They did a CT and found a partial blockage. They transfered him by ambulance up to the U. Dr. P said that sometimes these kinds of blockages can work themselves out if all the fluid build-up is pumped out. He has had the tube in for about 24 hours. It has been very uncomfortable...lots of gagging. Then..after a walk we discovered that it had come out quite a bit. The nurse pushed it back in, but it wasn't pumping anything out. She got hold of a Dr. who told her to take the tube out. Apparantly he only had abou 250 ml come out during the night...but maybe that is because the tube wasn't in the right place! At this point it is a waiting game...waiting to see if things start moving through like they are supposed to. If not...surgery is the next step!