Catherine is OK. She has no energy and is sleeping a lot. We have given her pain killers twice last night – Tylenol with codeine. She just seems completely exhausted.
They found an extra, dead kidney wrapped around the left kidney. They removed the dead kidney – which should never have been there in the first place. They also fixed the obstruction which was blocking the ureter. She is miserable right now because she has an IV, a nephrostomy tube draining her kidney, an oxygen sensor, and a catheter measuring her urine output. So in addition to her G-tube, which she is used to, she has 4 extra tubes sticking out of her. Yesterday, she also had a heart monitor and 2 lung monitors – so she had 7 extra tubes/wires attached to her.
She is sleeping very still now – usually she rolls all over the place and wiggles. But, I think she feels something pull or tug every time she moves, so she tries not to move.
The doctor says we can go home tomorrow as long as things keep progressing. Last night she kept down all of her slow-drip feeds. This morning she threw up a juice bolus (big feed – 4 ounces). She so far has kept down her formula bolus (3 ounces). The doctor wants us to try to be close to her regular feeds before we leave.
She will go home with two extra things sticking out of her left side: the neprhostomy tube which will drain her kidney for a few more weeks and the end of the stent which is holding her ureter open. Both will be removed by the doctor in his office in a few weeks.
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Glad to hear she's doing so well, but I feel so bad for her, not really understanding why she's got to have all those pesky tubes and things.
Y'all remain in our prayers.
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