Quick morning update

Just heard from Mandy and things are going extremely well. The doctor came in and said she is doing fantastic. He is increasing her feedings through the feeding tube to help speed up the healing process. She has been up and walking and is in good spirits. The nurses have her anticipated release date as Sunday. Keep your fingers crossed!

It's been awhile....

Yes it's been awhile and I think we would all agree that this is not a bad thing. Just a quick update, on Sunday mom was having some horrible stomach pains. Since she does has a hernia we were concerned that it could be a blockage. After running all sorts of tests in the ER at McKay Dee it was determined that she had a perforated ulcer which would require surgery. Since this is never a good thing we were all uneasy.

During surgery it was determined that she had a perforation in her small intestine. Luckily the surgeon was able to make about an 8 inch incision just below her sternum. He found the problem right away and made a quick patch. It's similar to patch a bike tire, they take a piece of tissue and patch the hole. The surgery went better than any of us expected. However when you have a hole in your intestine bowel leaks out into your abdominal cavity. So she has a pretty serious infection that we need to combat at this point.

She is feeling well, extremely tired but keeping the pain under control. The patch needs time to heal so in the mean time they are feeding her with a feeding tube up one nostril, and sucking bile out of her stomach through the other nostril. Two tubes going down the back her throat is pretty painful and makes talking or swallowing hard. We are cautiously optimistic because so far everything seems to be going really well.

Thanks to everyone for their thoughts and prayers. They truly are appreciated!