dordtrecht5
Puritan Board Freshman
Dearest Brethren,
My wife and I desire to publicly thank each of you for your prayer concerning our daughter, Audrey. Also, we wanted to give an update as to her condition.
Since the last post that I placed on the board Audrey has improved. Her condition is progressively getting better. On Sept. 6 her surgeon spoke with the transplant team here in Omaha, the University of Nebraska Med. Center. The Med. Center is a world renown transplant hospital, and clinically speaking probably known as "the best." The transplant team and the surgical team from Children's admit that Audrey is not a good candidate for a transplant at this time. The reasons: 1. She is far too susceptible to infection; 2. She has no veinous access in her upper body.
What they have agree on doing is having a Wound-Vac placed on her abdominal wound. What this apparatus does is pulls the fluid (bile, stomach secretions, intestinal fluid, etc.) away from abdominal cavity decreasing the chances of this fluid "pooling" in the abdominal cavity. She still has 6 fistulas (holes in the intestine) that need to heal up though. With this in mind, they are not sure of the likelihood of the future motility and viability of the small bowel, yet they persist in hoping that she will recover and regain use of the bowel. The concentration now (as it has been) is to keep Audrey free of infection and getting these fistuals healed up. Then, if and when it is time, we can prepare her for transplant. The likelihood for transplant has increased over the past week, even though she is not a candidate right now (if that makes sense).
Audrey has still been fighting low-grade fevers over the past several days so they have been keeping an eye on that through blood cultures. Everything so far has shown negative as to infection. This is really good and an answer to prayer.
Her blood is showing that there is improvement with white blood cell count and her triglyceride(sp?) count is improving so she can receive more protein in her TPN (blood nutrition).
She is still "mad at the world" per se, but we are able to get smiles and laughter from her. She is starting to welcome care partners and such, so this is all good as well. If any of you knew Audrey, you would call her an extrovert, she doesn't know strangers. All of the new "attitude" is something that is very foreign to Brigitte and I.
Will you all be kind enough to continue to pray for Audrey, Brigitte and I. Thank you very much
My wife and I desire to publicly thank each of you for your prayer concerning our daughter, Audrey. Also, we wanted to give an update as to her condition.
Since the last post that I placed on the board Audrey has improved. Her condition is progressively getting better. On Sept. 6 her surgeon spoke with the transplant team here in Omaha, the University of Nebraska Med. Center. The Med. Center is a world renown transplant hospital, and clinically speaking probably known as "the best." The transplant team and the surgical team from Children's admit that Audrey is not a good candidate for a transplant at this time. The reasons: 1. She is far too susceptible to infection; 2. She has no veinous access in her upper body.
What they have agree on doing is having a Wound-Vac placed on her abdominal wound. What this apparatus does is pulls the fluid (bile, stomach secretions, intestinal fluid, etc.) away from abdominal cavity decreasing the chances of this fluid "pooling" in the abdominal cavity. She still has 6 fistulas (holes in the intestine) that need to heal up though. With this in mind, they are not sure of the likelihood of the future motility and viability of the small bowel, yet they persist in hoping that she will recover and regain use of the bowel. The concentration now (as it has been) is to keep Audrey free of infection and getting these fistuals healed up. Then, if and when it is time, we can prepare her for transplant. The likelihood for transplant has increased over the past week, even though she is not a candidate right now (if that makes sense).
Audrey has still been fighting low-grade fevers over the past several days so they have been keeping an eye on that through blood cultures. Everything so far has shown negative as to infection. This is really good and an answer to prayer.
Her blood is showing that there is improvement with white blood cell count and her triglyceride(sp?) count is improving so she can receive more protein in her TPN (blood nutrition).
She is still "mad at the world" per se, but we are able to get smiles and laughter from her. She is starting to welcome care partners and such, so this is all good as well. If any of you knew Audrey, you would call her an extrovert, she doesn't know strangers. All of the new "attitude" is something that is very foreign to Brigitte and I.
Will you all be kind enough to continue to pray for Audrey, Brigitte and I. Thank you very much
