After 13hours in emergency with critically low potassium again, the day for the op arrived.
But.....the operation was not successful. once the surgeon got through the messy, raw oesophagus, she found it was not safe to cut through to reach the stomach. A rare situation of course, but her bowel was a little high and fully placed across her stomach. So after all the preparation, she woke in recovery to nothing different.
She was then placed back on the cannula with drip, feeding etc into her veins, she waited another week in hospital and was operated a couple of days ago. This was plan B and so key hole surgery was performed to place a low profile PEG in her stomach. This is now day 3 after the op and she has been in excruciating pain -even with the morphine, there was a severe allergic reaction causing nausea and horrible itchy skin, so they have been experimenting with other pain relief combinations. She has a multitude of tubes and machines attached to her. Her specialist, in response to her unusually large level of pain, has just taken her in for a scan to investigate the internal situation.
Can she not be given a break????
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