Thought I'd update you all. Some of you may know already, some may not. Ds started having some bleeding from his surgery spot last night. He was up in our bed resting and he came frantically to the banister with his hands full of blood. We took him to the ER and they observed him for a bit. It stopped and all looked ok so they released him to go home for the remainder of the night (not much of it left considering this happened at 10 and we didn't get to bed until midnight at least). They explained that bleeding at this point was very rare, happens in less than 2% of the patients. It is very uncommon for children his age to have bleeding issues as well. Gotta love being in the 2%.
Fast forward to this morning, he started bleeding again. It was really bad this time. Rick and I were both VERY scared. I've never seen so much blood. We'll just leave it at that before I gross you out anymore. So, off he goes to the ENT office where they wanted to take a look. I knew they were going to have to send him somewhere else due to the volume of blood, but they wanted us to go to the office first. The dr. took one look at him and said 'see you at the surgery center'. He had to be put back under and they cauterized the area. I guess there was a clot area that also was covering a 'squirter' (dr's terminology not mine!). He also had to clean up some of the scar tissue. Dr. says it will help his recovery a bit, hopefully. We're home now and he's sleeping it off. Poor guy. He just has had a rotten week! He's so mad at the dr's and furious that the nurses keep putting bandaids on his IV spots. ;) Here's hoping that his recovery will be smooth sailing from here on out.
phew...what a day!
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