Update on Robin

To update everyone, Robin has been pretty sick the last 6-8 weeks with severe abdominal pains, etc. They performed a colonoscopy, endoscopy and even had her swallow a capsule camera (I'll post photos at a later date) which got stuck in her small intestine. Last Tuesday they finally decided to perform exploratory surgery to find and correct the problem. They were thinking anything from cancer, crohn's disease to a simple bowel obstruction. What they found was an adhesion from her hysterectomy 2 years ago. Apparently the reminents of one of the tubes had adhered to the outside wall of her small intestine causing a kink in her intestine. The surgeon was able to separate the adhesion, manipulate the capsule cam that got stuck in her inestine and even took out her appendix. As far as surgery goes, it was the best we could have hoped for.

The hospital stay was a little up and down. She had an NG tube in her stomach for 6 days and was on Morphine for about 3. I stayed at the hospital for about 18 hours out of each day and on the 2nd day when I went home to check on the kids and try to sleep for 2 hours she had a problem. Her oxygen saturation dropped to 30% ad she fell unconscious for a short period of time. Thank GOD the nursing assistant came by to take her vitals and notice it and called for help. She was at Baylor Hospital and believe it or not they don't have monitoring that goes from the rooms to the nurses' station, everything is done in the room if a nurse bothers to come by (that's a whole other story). Thank God all ended up o.k. and I stayed there pretty much the rest of the time until her tube was out, she was off morphine and oxygen. I figured they couldn't kill her at that point.

She came home 3 days ago and has been doing well until today her pain has returned. She's talked to the surgeon who think it may just be her intestines coming back to life but will monitor it. Hopefully she is finished with the hospital for several years to come.

That's all for now, I'll update you if there is any change other than continued recovery. Thanks for all your prayers and thoughts... keep them coming.

EDITED AUGUST 29, 2008:

Here's a photo I took of the capsule cam that was stuck in Robin until after her surgery.