Back Again

 On Wednesday, I had my J-tube placed and it all seamed to go well. Thursday I woke up and my stomach was pretty flat and didn't have much swelling. Later that day the nurses started my tube feeds and they seamed to be going very well. The only thing was Friday morning, I noticed that my stomach had become quite swollen. The doctors didn't seam to worried about it so I was discharged from the hospital Friday night. Since the Cleveland Clinic is 2.5 hours away, it took Sean a little bit of time to get there but luckily, my mom and dad flew into town on Thursday, so my Dad when with Sean to keep him company. 

It was really good to see my Dad and it was really nice to see how exited Maia was to see him when we got home. Actually it was kind of funny because she was more happy to see my Dad then she was to see me. She warmed back up to me quickly but I'm glad she loves her Grandpapa too. 

We'll on Saturday, my parents took the girls to the park and then after nap time, Sean took them all to the Zoo, so I could get some rest. I ended up sleeping till about 8 pm, when they got home. It was food to get some sleep but I just wasn't feeling very well. My mom got the girls down to bed and I was just chilling on the couch. I could tell the pain in my stomach was starting to get pretty intense. I took some pain medicine and then my dad and Sean took me for a walk out side, to help things get moving. I still hadn't had a bowel movement since before the surgery so I was starting to get a little worried. I discontinued my feeds because I felt like I was just backing up.

I won't go into super detail but lets just say, last night was pretty rough. Through the vomiting and pain I was only able to catch a couple hours of sleep here and there. I think Sean got even less. This morning, I had Sean call the Cleveland clinic and he talked to the on call nurse. The nurse was pretty adamit that I should be taken to the nearest hospital and really that we should call 911. Neither Sean or I thought that was necessary but we didn't feel like we could make it all the way to Cleveland. So we headed into the OSU emergency room. 

After pain medicine, vomiting, anti-nausea meds, and one CT scan later, the verdict was in. I have a small bowel obstruction. Unfortunately it is a pretty bad obstruction and they are trying to decompress my stomach with a Nasal Gastric tube and hoping that the obstruction will work it's way out. If it doesn't, I am looking at having to have another surgery to fix the obstruction. This would have to be an open surgery and I have to say I am praying really hard that this will resolve on it's own. I really don't want another surgery especially an open surgery. If it does come to another surgery, we will deal, but I would like to avoid it if possible.

If you wouldn't mind saying a prayer for me, that would be greatly appreciated. Thank you all for all your love and support! I know I couldn't get through all this with out all the support of my family, friends and through the faith of many. 

Tomorrow is a new day and well see what it has to bring. :)