Are you wondering where we've been?

We brought Ian to the emergency room at Children's hospital on 6-13-08 due to bloody stools and distended abdomen. He ended up having to have surgery on his intestines on friday the 13th. He spent 3 nights in the PICU then was moved to a reg room where we spent the next 11days recovering well. His belly started getting distended again and having black tarry stools so they re-xrayed his belly and found that the portion that was causing the problem resulting in the other surgery had gotten worse and with each xray was dilated. They then had to go back in and do surgery again on his abdomen on Tuesday, June 24th. At this time, they removed almost 2ft of small intestine. They took out 50cm, leaving him with 75cm (almost 3ft). If this 4th abdominal surgery doesn't resolve the problem, then the surgeon says that it is something that just cannot be fixed surgically. So, hopefully everything will be okay after he begins healing. If not, the plans are to be referred to a specialist in Ohio or Nebraska. There is a place that specializes in Motility in Columbus, OH and a place that specializes in short gut in Nebraska. We just moved from the PICU to the floor today and there just happened to be a computer across from his room so i was able to post an update. He's having alot of pain but getting it controlled with meds. His belly is distended again and we are waiting on xray results to find out if it's just normal swelling from fluid from the surgery, or if something else is wrong. I'll post as i can. Please keep him in your prayers.

Christy

A few new pics