If there is anything that comes from this bumpy medical journey, I hope that it's this: however small/minute the symptom, if you have a gut feeling about something...trust your gut! I have to thank my sister-in-law, Anna Lamson, for sharing with me my oldest niece's GI trouble & surgery. If you hadn't shared with me, Briana would still have horrid constipation to deal with.
Since June 2015, Bri has been on 3 stool softeners/laxatives daily...twice! She has had X-Rays (KUBs), MRIs, CBCs, and lower GI testing, ARM and lastly the colonoscopy & Motility Study.
We are quite anxious for the next step, the MACE procedure. She will have a 1/3 of her appendix stretched to the top of the large intestine to insert a port/catheter that will flush her bowels daily. We read that the daily flush takes anywhere from 30-60 minutes.
If I thought our house was full of terms before...well let's just say that somehow the house will have to become a thousand times better...now. Her immune system will be so low while she has the G-tube in. So I have 15 days to purge, clean & disinfect the entire house!
Ok...I'm ready. Are you?
Wednesday, January 6, 2016
Briana's MACE procedure
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