Thank you for your prayers over the last few days! Surgery took almost 7 hours on Friday and even though part of this was because the right leg was more complicated than the left, her surgeon thought it went very well! They removed the cast from her left leg and put a temporary knee immobilizer on it until we get the leg brace.
However, as of tonight, we are still at the hospital. Just when we thought everything was going smoothly... Isn't that how it goes though? Satan just loves to trip us up. And, yes, sometimes I let him, ugh! Especially when it seems each surgery has had it's own drama with it. But, in the end, I know God is fighting these battles and He will win - I don't always see how, but I do know I have to be patient and TRUST Him...oh, so hard sometimes.
So, Saturday afternoon Amelia's cast around her chest (because it's another spica cast) grew very tight - we're still not sure what happened - but she was in a lot of pain, even on a bunch of pain meds. It became unbearable, so they called in another orthopaedic surgeon right away and he went on to cut a circle out of the front middle, another triangle by her hip and slit open the side. Thankfully, that stopped the pressure sore on her hip that was causing a lot of pain. This also relieved enough pressure to get her through the night.
In the meantime, Amelia's hemoglobin dropped, she developed a high fever and she still was not eating or drinking from before surgery Thursday night. But, the cast had been squeezing her belly so tight.
This morning the on-call surgeon came in to see her and ended up removing even more of the cast in 2 spots that were still digging into her skin. He was also concerned that Amelia still wasn't taking in any nutrition or many fluids and still had a low hemoglobin.
Tomorrow morning, Dr. K - her own doctor - will come in to re-evaluate all of this. And she finally started to eat tonight, so that's a great start!
Thank you for faithfully lifting Amelia up in prayer - we know it's what gets us through one day at a time!
Please pray that...
- Dr. K will make the best decision on what to do about this cast. And, if it must stay on, that her skin would be protected from pressure sores or worse.
- she'll continue to eat more!
- her hemoglobin will increase!
- she won't fight taking her meds - she's convinced "it doesn't help!" And, she has 6 of them that she needs to be taking right now.
- that we can get her home! :)
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