Re: Bowel Obstruction Update=Randy

May 25, 2010

Prayers were answered.

God bless,

Pat

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>

> Hey everyone,

> Thanks for the well wishes and prayers. Lorna is recovering. During her

surgery they found part of the small intestine had twisted and had caused the

blockage. After the surgeon got everything free and untwisted it pinked right

back up. He felt everything was viable so he didn't do any resection of the

bowel. He felt had we waited a couple more hours it could have cost Lorna some

bowel as he would have had to removed the dead tissue. Lorna is resting and

they expect her to be in the hospital 4-5 days if she doesn't have any set

backs.

>

> The ER I took her to wanted to just use the standard methods to try and clear

it, which of course don't work with us DS'ers. So I showed them the card we all

carry, OR SHOULD CARRY, and bitched at them until they called Dr. K. After

talking with him they transfered her to Sanford USD Medical Center in Sioux

Falls, SD and as luck would have it the on-call surgeon was a Bariatric surgeon.

He doesn't do the DS but at least when I talked with him before Lorna's surgery

he understood that he was not working on a gastric bypass pateint. Afterwords

he said that durring the surgery he examined everything and he said he was very

impressed with the work Dr. K did.

>

> Any way, we are all hoping that she will be back home soon as I and the kids

miss her here very much. Makes a person think, I don't know what I would have

done if I had lost her to this. Someone was watching over her.

>

> Randy

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