Things were going to plan but as i said in my last post Henny couldn't be counted as fit and well. The surgery on the intestine went well and was / is healing but life is just never that simple.
In the middle of the night early monday morning our optimism was well and truly stomped on when Henny picked up a double complication, fluid collecting in the liver and an infection.
She was truly pretty ill.
Seems that the umbilical venous catheter that was inserted to keep her, well alive basically since she couldn't eat, allowed fluid into the liver and caused the infection....double whammy.
Situation as of today is that she is stable and the doctors are waiting for the antibiotics to take care of the infection.
Tomorrow they are hoping to insert a central venous catheter which would ease a few problems, the catch, there is ALWAYS a catch, is that this is a surgical procedure so they have to give her a general anesthetic.
An all too rare conscious moment.
Surgical opening healing unbelievably well.
To replace the umbilical catheter they had to set up two new intravenous lines, one in her head an another in her hand to join the one she already has in her foot. The one in her head meant that we can no longer pick her up due to the risk of disturbing the line.
She also had a central arterial catheter put in on her other hand to ease the taking of blood tests and monitoring of blood pressure, so we can't hold either of her hands now.
As she is this evening, our little girl has been dealt tough start, the lights are on but the world is a dark place.
things can only get better.
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