Appointments Update

Last week was less than ideal. We had to cancel the audiology/ENT appointment because Isabel was in the hospital. On Monday, we saw the surgeons about her G tube, and they were concerned that it may be infected, so she was admitted right from clinic. We did not anticipate that. They wanted her to get IV antibiotics. They also said that her G tube would need to be moved because, as I suspected, it was now too close to her pacemaker. Long story short, we had them remove the G tube. (She is fed through her separate J-tube so no worries about that). The stoma is healing up, slow and steady. She came home last Friday on oral antibiotics. That was earlier than expected because they could not get an IV in her...and that is very scary. Her veins have had so many picc lines and IVs in the past year that there aren't any left in decent shape right now. In a life threatening emergency, there are things that they could do, but it is still not good. :( So we continue to wait for all to heal and will be rescheduling the ENT appointment. We have a follow up with the surgeons in a couple of weeks for them to see how the G stoma is healing and to discuss plans moving forward.  On a positive note, she remained happy and well all week and we all got to visit with a lot of old friends.  She was happy to come home though...and that made us very, very happy.