Sharmel Update 09/10 -- Does the dancing carrot bother anyone else?
Sharmel's pain control has improved, she is only on a morphine PCA at the moment and only hits it sporatically. The Dr tested her G-tube on friday and found no leakage, he began pushing saline friday afternoon and moved to Vivanex (nutritional supplement) yesterday. Unfortunately everything that is being pushed in the tube is being returned on "residual" checks. Basically her bowels are in a coma and she is not absorbing anything through them. Dr was expecting this and says we just need to be patient, not to be get too concerned unless they are still in a coma after two weeks. He plans on testing the revision tomorrow with Barium to check for leaks in the pouch. If there are no leaks, he will start letting her swallow small amounts of water to see how she handles that, it is possible that her bowels will wake up this way. If nothing is passing through her as it should, tuesday he will do a CT scan with Ovnisource, which he says is like liguid drano, and will certainly go through the bowels and give a good image to see if something is twisted or kinked in her system that is preventing absorbsion. She is still pretty uncomfortable and any movement hurts, but dr is optimistic, we are realistic and maybe sometime soon the "optimistic train" will find the "reality tracks" and we will be headed to the "land of sanity".
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