Update on Zoey's Surgery

Here's an update on Zoey, who had surgery today (see last few posts for more details):

We had a long day today. Zoey’s surgery was at 7:45 – I got to go into the O.R. with her until they put her to sleep – our last snuggle for a while! The surgery finished around 3:15 – apparently they had some difficulty getting the hips as close together as they would have liked, but close enough to get the bladder back inside and urologist said he was pleased with how well the bladder went together. The rectal part of the procedure only took 20 minutes. She had a small blood transfusion since it was such a long procedure. We had to wait another 2 ½ hours after that until we got to see her. She ended up going to the ICU since there was no room upstairs in a ward for her. Turns out this was a good thing because when we saw her in the ICU she was unexpectedly in a fair bit of pain (and partly annoyed at all the tubes preventing her from sucking her thumb and of course her legs being straight up in the air). The epidural they gave was supposed to avoid any pain…. Anyhow after about 30-60 minutes and several calls to pain control dep’t and several painkillers and sedatives and a local anaesthetic, she calmed down and by 8 pm was peaceful. Since she’ll be in the ICU for the night she’ll have a nurse by her bedside the entire time and she seems comfortable so we decided to try and get some rest at home for tonight, as it may the last chance for quite some time to get a good sleep, at least for me J We’ll be back there in the a.m. and she’ll likely get moved up to her new home in a ward.

Zach and Eliana are coping very well at their Oma and Opa’s thankfully.

We really are so thankful to have your support and prayers and practical help this next while. Today they confirmed what we suspected – that she would be in traction 4-5 weeks and see after that how her bones are growing and her incisions are healing. We’ll continue to keep you posted over the weeks ahead as there are any new developments.

Love, Stephanie

Thanks for reading.