Post surgery...

Sorry I didn't update earlier today but it's not been a good day around here. I am going to keep this one short, sweet and to the point and will give a more detailed account tomorrow.

The surgery went okay, not great, just okay. First they had to place the tube completely different than where they'd shown us and marked it. :( It's way closer to her ribs and completely mid-line but what can you do.

During the procedure she bled more then she should have from the site, enough that they drew labs to check clotting time but I haven't received word on those yet.

When she was brought up to her room (and we got to see her for the first time) she was taped up (IV, GTube, etc.) in BOTH tapes she's allergic too. After how things had already gone that morning, again more on that later, I was steaming and ended up getting the shift supervisor involved.

Within a few hours she was screaming in pain and then we started to have a lot of lung issues and for me to say Alana was having lung issues means that it was bad. We now know that she had a small section of her lungs get stuck together/co

llapse onto itself, therefore she's just shy of 3 ltrs of O2, not getting above 95, RR over 40-50, and miserable. After the stat x-ray this all came to light why she was having such issues so I just don't know. They hope by tomorrow she will be able to reinflate that area if we can get her pain under control and get her up and moving.

They've started bolus IV fluids b/c she's getting dehydrated so that's a whole nother round of fun.

She also has a fever close to 102 so we are just riding this all out and hoping it's just Alana being Alana and it's going to get better tomorrow.

I will update more tomorrow but for right now I am beyond tired/angry/scared/sick of hearing that she's a complex child and that some of these things are expected.