5/2/08

After a few bouts of projectile vomitting and the pediatrician checking my stool for blood I was rushed to the ER on Tuesday. I had x-rays done and air was found in my bowel walls. This required me to have emergency surgery. The air being present signalled to the doctors that I probably had a perforation. They could not find one. It could have been so small or already healed over. He smoothed out some intestinal kinks and cut open a part to sew it in order to make that portion of my bowel wider. I made it out of surgery. I was taken off the ventilator yesterday. I am still on Fentanyl for pain. Infection was present in my intestines, so I am on three antibiotics for about two weeks. There is major concern for sepsis in the blood, but so far my cultures have come back negative. Mom finally got to hold me last night. It helped to calm me a bit. I have not been sleeping much. I am very mad I can not eat. I am back on TPN for nutrition, but I want some real food. I have more tubes connected to me now than I ever did. I have the suction tube back in my mouth to keep all fluids from entering my intestines. This allows them to rest and heal. Mom and Dad are very sad to see me go through this again. The doctors said these types of things can just happen because the amount of intestine I have remaining is floppy.

Ben