thats more like it

Surgery went well and my bag was already filling up when I woke up. I just had water and an italian ice last night but this morning I got a regular breakfast. I am still in some pain but I think that is from throwing up so much yesterday and the fact I had two surgerys in less then 48 hours. I should be getting out around noon and they will aslo be pulling my central line before I go.

update

They did close the wrong side and I am going down asap to have it fixed....oi

I knew it couldn't be that easy.

Wednesday morning I woke up feeling great and ate a full breakfast. Unfortantly my bowl had not woke up yet so all that food just sat in there untill after lunch when I threw up. I am still haveing really bad cramping and throwing up everything, even juice. The took me down to do an x-ray with contrast to make sure they didn't close off the wrong end...

surgery

Melissa had her surgery today. It was a long wait. Surgery was suppose to be at 2:30 but two cases ran long and they got behind. She didn't go into surgery until about 6:00. Everything went well. The surgeon was out to talk to us in only about a half hour. They stitched the back side of the stoma closed. He did say that she will probably need major surgery when they get rid of the bag, such as going in and cleaning out her insides(the abscesses). Hopefully she will get to come home tomorrow.

Surgery scheduled

Melissa's surgery is scheduled for Sept 20 at 2:00 pm. They are going to staple the distal side of her stoma closed. This is the least invasive surgery they could do. She will need to be at the hospital earlier because the interventional radiologist is also going to do a drain check earlier that day. It will be a long day.

She is feeling pretty good. She sees the infectious disease people next week. they are the ones prescribing antibiotics.

Amanda has spent a lot of time helping her since she is not suppose to do heavy lifting and it hurts to do much bending. That will come to an end when Amanda leave Sunday. Thank you Amanda.

Getting better

Melissa had a couple of bad days last week but the weekend was good. She just gets tired if she does too much. She went to see the interventioal radiologist today. He pulled one drain and put a smaller tube in the other one. He says everything is looking good. I'm sure being on IV antibiotics doesn't hurt.

He did tell Melissa that he had talked with the surgeon and he(surgeon) wants to stitch up the distal side of her stoma. Melissa will get official word of this on Wednesday when she see the surgeon. No idea at this time when it might happen.

Melissa has her appitite back and seems to eat almost constantly. She has put back on a couple of pounds.

Coming Home

Melissa is coming home today. She will come home on IV antibiotics but will be able to do them herself since she has a hohn line in her neck shoulder area.

The report came back on the sore by the stoma, it is just a sore that can't heal because the scab keeps getting torn off when she changes her bag. She had biopsies done yesterday which made for a long day. She was taken down at 9:30 and didn't get back into the room until almost 3:00. She was also given 2 units of blood last night. That didn't finish until 2:00 am this morning. Hopefully she will not have any problems while she is home.