Bumps in the Road

After two days of being at home, Mom started to have REALLY bad pain in her abdomen.  The Surgical Oncologist told her to come into the ER. She started having more problems, like throwing up and not being able to go to the bathroom. Her stomach was filling up with fluid and her heart rate was getting really high so they took her to ICU.

They did a CT scan and placed two drains in her abdomen to get out the liquid. Test results came back to show that the liquid is Lymph liquid and not Pancreatic liquid, like we thought. Almost 5 liters of fluid was drained!! Liquid tested free of infection so we are thankful for that.

She will start PIC nutrition tomorrow instead of a feeding tube (because that was part of the problem of why she was filling up with fluid). She will have a PIC line for two weeks, and the hope is to be trying to eat solid food by the beginning of June!

We hope to be stable enough to move from ICU to Huntsman today. Not sure how long she'll need to stay at Huntsman, but hoping by the middle of this next week she can come home again.

Happy Mother's Day today, Mom! I am very thankful for you in my life. I'm amazed at your strength through these bumps in the road of life.  I pray you will recover fully so we can create more happy memories in the years to come!!! I love you so so so much!

(Blog update by Chelsea. Picture from 2008 at the Villa with Gram, Mom, Lachlan and Janessa)