Home!

We are home!! It feels sooo good! I hadn't expected our stay to be THAT long. Although, I am happy our doctors were concerned about making sure Lucy was sent home in the best possible shape she could be. There certainly have been times in the past where physicians sent us away, knowing she would fail, but wanted to wash their hands of it and let someone else deal with her slow progress. We were reassured, time and again, this hospital stay that they weren't sending us home until she reached certain dietary qualifications- one way or another. Lucy tends to just need extra time. Things are slow to wake up and restart while trying to heal at the same time. Her GI knew that Lu would need most of the summer to get back to full rate and feel good. I am pleased so far with how fast she has bounced back. She struggled far more with her g-tube placement (a much easier surgery) than with this surgery. Lucy is running at 51 cc's an hour, which is about 7 or 8 cc's an hour shy of her goal rate. Shes been complaining of belly pain but there isn't any obvious distention in her abdomen, so we have to assume it more of an issue of the Visceral Hyperalgesia than anything else. We may have to revisit the idea of medicating it if we can't resolve it in a reasonable frame of time. Otherwise, Lucy is up and running, forgetting she had major surgery less than 2 weeks ago!