Reanastomosed

Eliza is scheduled for 2pm tomorrow to be reanastomosed. This surgery is to reverse the surgery that she had when she was 7 days old because she had developed either NEC or a spontaneous bowel perforation. To keep her intestines from dumping stool into her abdominal cavity they pulled out a loop of her small intestine as an ileostomy so that her lower bowel could heal. Since she was so small and fragile when she underwent the inital surgery (about 1 pound) they had to be extremely careful. One of the comments that the surgeon said when asked how it went was "well, her insides are like wet tissue paper." I'll never forget that. (Yep, we have the same surgeon tomorrow... hopefully the description of her insides will be a little more positive this time :) ) 

She (and we) have been dealing with this for the last 4 months. And it's finally time to fix her. This surgery is a big deal and quite invasive but it's what she needs and we are glad that its time to finally do it. Fortunately from the study they did on her last week it looks like the downstream part of her bowels look great. They don't see any strictures or other problems, though they will not know for sure until they get inside. Hopefully everything looks great and the surgery goes pretty much as intended. That's what we'll be hoping, praying and crossing our fingers for!