Possible Plan for her Bum Infection

After further considerations and consultation with other experts, the General Surgeon, along with our cardio team and other specialists think it wise to have a group of doctors take another look at the infection on Amelia's bum to consider a procedure to allow her stools to drain to a bag, or, continuing with limiting solid food intake in order to reduce her stools.  The procedure will allow her bum to heal easier and faster.  She is scheduled to head down just after lunch.

At this point, Kim and I are torn.  The procedure would allow for a cleaner wound area and hopefully a quicker healing and recovery.  However, it is an operation and there are considerations, as is so with any operation.  She did have a rough point today when the nurses needed to change her diaper.  The change was not as smooth as it usually is and Amelia became quite upset.  It is a very trying ordeal to change her diaper now because the sore on her bum is so bad and causes so much pain when we need to change her.

This evening we did have Amelia up walking around her room and sitting on a chair.  She looked so good.  Almost too good to be in a hospital.  She was smiling and laughing with us and doing even more Amelia stuff.  I know we have been saying that a lot, but there are a lot of things a 2 year old does and many of those things we have not seen for two to three weeks and you grow to miss them when you have not seen them in a while.

We continue to pray for God to touch Amelia and heal her bum.  Tonight we ask for extra prays of healing on her bum such that the doctors taking a look tomorrow might say they are seeing significant healing and they do not need to do any procedures.  If they do decide to move forward, we pray for safety from infection and bleeding as her immune system is still suppressed and her platelet count remains low.  The good news there is they have not giving as many platelet transfusions over the last 2 days or so (maybe a half bag) and her counts have remained steady, although low (normal counts or 100 (thousand) plus and she has been in the teens the last few days (single digits last week).

Blessings

The Moody's