Lizzy had a really rough night. She's starting to feel a lot of pain and has been much more restless. She's had some problems with her catheter and the collar she has to wear is bothering her a lot. It's nothing abnormal, we've been expecting that today would be a hard day, but it's really hard for her and Tammy who stayed with her all night. The doctors are still saying that she's looking very good - she has good color in her skin and her vitals are in good shape. She's very communicative and able to express what's going on. Everything points to a normal pattern of recovery, but she will have several very difficult days coming up.
In other news, I spent the night with Adam here in the hospital. As a patient! We've never had any of our kids ever stay a night in a hospital (other than as a newborn) and now we have two kids on the same night! Unbelievable!
I left Lizzy and went home (to Todd's house) around 9:00 last night and found Adam writhing on the couch with severe abdominal pain. His uncle and grandpa (both doctors) had been with him as his pain increased and both were concerned that he had all the signs of appendicitis and recommended we bring him to the emergency room. So, I turned around and rode with Adam as grandpa drove us back to the hospital.
Some of you may remember that when Adam was born, he had abdominal surgery to repair an omphalocele (Adam was born with some of his intestines outside of his body and had to have that repaired the day after he was born). A common complication of omphalocele is an obstruction in the intestine caused by twisting or intestinal damage from when he was a baby. This will often show up during adolescence.
After a couple of hours in ER, Adam was given a room and will be kept here for a couple of days in observation. The surgeon thinks he could have a partial obstruction (there was some evidence of that on his xray, but nothing definitive) so they just want to keep an eye on him. He's had a couple of other episodes like this recently so we'll see how it progresses. He is feeling much better this morning, but he'll be hanging out at the hospital today too (but probably not needing a surgery thankfully).
Problems always seem to come in waves! Lizzy is still by far our bigger concern right now, but we'll keep you posted if anything changes with Adam as well.
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Praying for ALL of you!
Thanks for keeping us posted. Hope everything works out for both Lizzy and Adam. So grateful you have family there to help you with everyone.
Luckily we have been including the whole Finch family in our prayers and will keep that up. Tell Adam if he wanted to be close to Lizzie there may have been a better way to do that!
Sad!! I'm so glad you are surrounded by family that can help so much right now. Hopefully no one else needs a trip to the hospital!
Lots of prayers going up for you from lots of people over here. We miss and love you all and send happy thoughts to Adam and Lizzy.
Oh my!!! I can hardly believe the timing of that. I guess in some ways it was good timing because when else does Adam have 2 doctors who are watching over him. It is hard that your attentions are divided though.
I hope Lizzy does okay today. My heart aches for her. I wish I could be there to help in some way. I wish I could scoop up Lizzy and Tammy and give them hugs.
You are constantly in my thoughts and prayers. Thanks for the update and I hope today is a good day.
PS- just FYI Sister Rose called me yesterday to get an update. She said that she has called and put Lizzy's name in 4 different temples and is praying for her constantly. She was so glad to hear that Lizzy came through the surgery without any problems. She sends her thoughts and love.
Holy Cow! When it rains it pours! Poor Lizzy. I'm so sorry she's having so much pain now. And poor Adam! I'm glad his grandpa and uncle were there, too, and I hope they both feel better as the day goes on. Still sending love and saying prayers for your whole family. Thanks for keeping us posted. I love you all soooooo much!!
Greg & Tammy, What a week you've had! We are so pleased that everyone is pulling through.
You and your family are in our prayers,
Vic & Desiree
Wow, you are really going through some major trials lately, I hope things turn out well with both your kids. These sort of experiences are not much fun, we'll keep you in our prayers, hang in there!
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