by Dianne | Mar 21, 2012
We’ve completed our meeting with an adult surgeon, pediatric surgeon, and the rest of the team as far as the possibility of surgery. Our pastor attended the meeting with us and summarized as follows in a prayer request sent to our church. I just wanted to extend that...
by Dianne | Mar 21, 2012
Ty’s condition is now complicated by an obstruction that is preventing the blood in his stomach from passing out of his body. This is very painful. The blood is pooling there in increasing volumes, causing his stomach to stretch painfully and risk perforating as...
by Dianne | Mar 21, 2012
The “out of the box” med doesn’t appear to be working. Tyler’s abdomen is more distended and hard, and they are pulling lots more blood out of his stomach through his oral gastric (OG) tube. He is at this moment receiving 3 units of blood...
by Dianne | Mar 20, 2012
As of 6pm today, Tyler received an equal number of red blood units as he did yesterday. Staying even isn’t the same as getting better, but it’s better than requiring more units as he had been daily. Also, the doctors just met and offered us an option to...
by Dianne | Mar 20, 2012
We just finished meeting with two of his doctors. Tyler is continuing to lose blood as fast as they can give it. His stomach and intestine tissue has been lacking oxygen for a very long time now. It could perforate at any time. Not only does the bleeding need to stop,...
