Tuesday, December 02, 2008

My paw paw

First, I'd like to thank you all for keeping my family and me in your thoughts and prayers.
The surgery was a little more than three hours and was incredibly intense. They removed his colon and did an ileostomy, and also removed his spleen and gall bladder. His bowel was perforated and his entire belly was pretty much full of blood, and many other "secretions" (I'll keep it at that for those of you with weak stomachs). They've inserted a feeding tube directly into his small intestine and will begin using that in a couple of days to provide nutrition. They are using a "wound vac" to minimize the risk of infection. During the procedure, they went through 4 units of whole blood, 20 units of platelets and 4 units of fresh frozen plasma. This is in addition to the 7 units of whole blood and 4 units of platelets they used yesterday. He's till not out of the woods, as the risk of infection is really high. At this point, the Dr's believe this was caused by vascular disease and/or atrial fibrillation.
Thanks again.

5 comments:

Sarah*d* said...

Love you... prayers all day.. i donate blood often

Anonymous said...

I'll keep him in my prayers

Anonymous said...

Keep your chin up and get some rest. We're all still praying. Love you much!

Anonymous said...

ill praying for you, girl.

back2basics said...

Wow...maybe we want to get him in touch with Brad and they can discuss ileostomy's! Brad and Sherri are STILL in the hospital.

I am glad Paw Paw is on his road to recovery. Will keep praying.