Third day post transplant

Brian and Janene asked me to post the update for today. It has been another day along the transplant journey with bumps along the way. Janene still continues do improve and has felt much better than yesterday. She was able to sleep well last night for the first time since surgery. Her biggest problem other than being very sore and tender on her right side, is getting the plumbing working in her body. She also tried to eat a little bit of a full liquid diet and it came back up, so she is fighting nausea, but over all she is doing well.

The Big bump in the road is with our little angel baby Lydia. They had to take her back into surgery this morning because of too much pressure from accumulated fluids in the tissues of her body. The felt the liver was putting pressure on her lungs and kidneys and the liver itself so they opened her up and put in a sponge like material on top of her liver with a suction attatched to it and then kind of shrink wrapped her or vacume packed her. So her abdomen is once again opened up. The hope is to relieve the pressure on her organs so they can perfuse better and start functioning better. They have had to put her on an oscilator ventilator which is helping with her oxygenation. The next step they are considering is to dialyise her kidneys to help get her lab values to improve. Her little body has some really big bumps to get over. We hope she can turn the corner soon and that she can start the healing process.

Once again we know she is in the best hands possible and we are grateful for all the prayers that are being said.