Out of Surgery

Alyse is out of surgery.  She had three holes in her colon.  The surgeon removed a section of her colon and placed her bowel in an ostomy bag on the outside of her abdomen.  The plan is to surgically repair the bowel and place it back in the abdomen when she is bigger & stronger.

The surgeon opened up her omphalocele, cleaned out the waste that had accumulated from the perforated bowel, placed the intestine from the omphalocele in her abdomen, and closed.  He said that it's "not pretty" right now, but that it could be fixed when he goes back to fix the colon.  He said that he needed to close right away because her temperature was going down.

She lost some blood during the procedure, and her coloring looks horrible.

We've been warned that it will be a rocky night.

Her doctor just informed us that she will have a head ultrasound in the morning to make sure she didn't develop any brain bleeds during all of the rising and falling of blood pressures today.

Pray, pray, pray.