Wednesday, February 04, 2004
Good news everybody. After all this and that, it was just a bad case of gas.
Karoliina went into surgery last night and they were going to remove the stones from her gall bladder, but they couldn't. She had a bunch of scar tissue from her appendicitis when she was 8 and this caused the procedure to suffer some difficulties. And this was all the news that we received last night. We were under the impression that there might be further surgeries and we were preparing to move her to Turku, to Anneli's hospital. But this morning (Wednesday) the doctor came in and told us that the scar tissue was causing a tightening around her small intestine and this was blocking the flow of air, which was causing her so much pain. So they were able to flatten out the intestine and clear a path for the easy flow of air, which will hopefully end the pain.
She will be in the hospital until Friday morning and then she will be able to come home. Anneli will arrive tomorrow night and will spend the weekend with us. We were planning on going skiing this weekend, but just laying on the couch together will be better than anything else. She will have 4 little scars on her belly, like 4 little gun shot wounds and that's all.
Karoliina went into surgery last night and they were going to remove the stones from her gall bladder, but they couldn't. She had a bunch of scar tissue from her appendicitis when she was 8 and this caused the procedure to suffer some difficulties. And this was all the news that we received last night. We were under the impression that there might be further surgeries and we were preparing to move her to Turku, to Anneli's hospital. But this morning (Wednesday) the doctor came in and told us that the scar tissue was causing a tightening around her small intestine and this was blocking the flow of air, which was causing her so much pain. So they were able to flatten out the intestine and clear a path for the easy flow of air, which will hopefully end the pain.
She will be in the hospital until Friday morning and then she will be able to come home. Anneli will arrive tomorrow night and will spend the weekend with us. We were planning on going skiing this weekend, but just laying on the couch together will be better than anything else. She will have 4 little scars on her belly, like 4 little gun shot wounds and that's all.
// posted by Howard @ 11:09 AM 
