Day 36
May 18, 2010
Michael is just out of surgery after over 3 hours and is being stabilized in the PICU. His surgery went much longer than anticipated as they found it to be worse once he had been opened up. They had to remove a portion of his intestine that had been taken over by scar tissue (adhesions) and remove all adhesions. They also found multiple absesses that were hiding/ surrounded by these adhesions and these were drained. They cleaned all of his insides out again good, gave him a blood transfusion and removed his appendix which was also enmassed. His incision is now twice the size and stapled closed. He is sleeping restlessly but being watched over carefully.