Thursday 21 April 2011

5cm less bowel

Jonathan underwent a marathon 7 hours worth of surgery today, and emerged with 5cm less bowel and in what appears to be a fairly stable state.

The surgeon found a kink in part of his gut, and they think it was caused by the way his scar healed from the last operation. When the kink was undone, they found his stoma turned a dusky colour, so they ended up having to remove the kinked part of his gut altogether.

He hasn't collected another scar as a result of this operation because they reopened the exact same scar that was created last time - all very tidy!

At the moment he seems quite relaxed, and his parents are able to breathe a sigh of relief given this operation seems to have been successful ...

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2 comments:

chang chen said...

Great! Great doctors!

Anonymous said...

On the road to better health - we'll pray for that. Love Dawnie.