We will be here a while. Unfortunately, while the spleen infection is out, we are now facing a bowel obstruction. On Friday night, Hannah began to be very uncomfortable. Her belly started to swell and wouldn't go down. By Saturday afternoon, we pulled 450 ml of fluid from inside Hannah's stomach. The good news is that it was not leaking to anywhere else in her body.
The worst case scenario is that we are looking at another surgery. Tomorrow morning there will be another blood draw to check the white count but we will also have a picture taken to view Hannah's intestinal tract and see where there is any movement happening. Right now, Hannah's tube is connected to vent constantly. Two attempts have been made to close the vent and see how she handles pressure build up- both did not last long. She gets pretty uncomfortable pretty fast. Until tomorrow, the tube will remain vented, the hope being that Hannah's bowels wake up and start to move the blockage through, or that the venting helps release the blockage. Either of these would be a better option that surgery.
There is no real reason for the blockage, but until Hannah's bowels start to move again, she can't eat regular food. Right now she's on IV fluids again and we are hoping that the vein for this IV continues to hold out. We are running out of viable veins for nutrition.
Right now, Eli is cuddling with Hannah in her crib and she is grabbing his arm and smiling. She's awake and flapping her arms and legs- let's get the poop flowing!
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