Yesterday afternoon – the branula on Baby C’s hand leaked. When the doctor opened up the branula, we saw that the hole on baby’s hand had expanded, thus the leakage. Ouch, the line had to be removed and another line inserted again. That was the dunno how many umpteenth time the line was inserted and baby now has holes all on her hands.
When Baby C puked continuously puked last night and her tummy looked really distended, the doctor inserted a nasogastric tube (NG tube) into her nostril. The NG tube passes her nostril, throat and into her guts. Any gastric juice, bile liquid or gas can be aspirated out from the tube. Yesterday, the doctor attached a huge collection bag to the NG tube. Stomach liquid would be able to flow out freely into the collection bag. It was an extremely traumatizing and heart-wrenching time for Baby C and me. I can’t even bring myself to describe here how my baby reacted when the NG tube was inserted into her guts from her nostril. That was just too much for her to bear. Even we adults would freak out and faint seeing the tube being inserted into our guts. After the NG tube was inserted, our doctor ordered another X-ray of the abdomen to be done… at 11pm. The X-ray showed normal guts pattern, some wind at the bottom of her guts (which means that the wind could pass her guts and most likely no obstruction).
This morning, our doctor referred a group of pediatricians to review Baby C, for a second, third and forth opinion. In this hospital, the pediatricians work in a team. Every morning, a team of 3 peds would make ward rounds to review and examine every patient. The peds would take turns to examine the patient, come up with a diagnosis and then brainstorm. The team of peds were all of the opinion that there’s no obstruction in baby’s guts as her stools are green in color, the bowel sounds are active and her tummy is soft. The green color thingy are from the bile and if her guts are obstructed, the bile thingy and stools would not be able to pass the guts and out from her rectum. Also, baby’s temperature had come down, must be the antibiotics (which our dr. started giving to baby late last night) took effect or baby’s body is healing on its own.
I’m now anxiously waiting for my surgeon and the team of peds to revert to me on the next course of action. Meanwhile, the hubs will be flying back to KL today to sort out his business matters after being away from KL for more than 2 weeks.
I would really like to thank all my readers who have been praying for my baby and thanks to the pastors (whom I don’t even know) from 2 churches here in Penang who came to pray for Baby C.
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