Monday night we arrived at the hospital to spend some quality time with our little Kynlee, she had finished her 10 days of no eating and Tuesday morning was going to be the first time she would eat again. We were so excited, she had been doing so good she is such a little fighter. Well once we got there i ran back washed my hands and visited with her nurse a little bit about her day, she told me that earlier in the day she had started spitting up...i looked at her and said are we talking about the same baby..because my baby has not been eating for 10 days how could she be spitting up??? she told me it was a little bile from her stomach and everything was fine we were still on track for feeding her tomorrow..so i thought everything was fine. I picked her up and we sat and rocked and cuddled for a little while..untill she started vomiting lots more bile, i was very scared the drs and nurse practitioner ran in and took her from me looked her over and ordered and xray to be done immediately. i started crying because i knew something was wrong..the xray came back and the dr and nurses came to talk to me they explained that kynlee is not a good as they thought and she would be air evac to more intensive care unit that was more capable of taking care of her needs. they explained that had she not started to throw up and we would have fed her then things could have been life threatening for her and to thankful this was caught before feeding her again. She was transferred to Banner Desert NICU and once we arrived there we were greeted by several drs and a surgeon..they explained was going on and that she was going to need surgery to repair what the Necrotizing Enterocolitis had damaged. Even though they did some tests that would show them where the damage was..her surgery was still considered exploratory and they really did not know how bad it could be. We had to sign all these consent forms saying that she may need an ostomy bag or that she may need parts of her intestine removed, it was very scary. The surgeon and his team was very knowledgeable and explained everything to us so that we could understand. After talking with the drs and surgeon I felt like I could breathe again, it felt like "finally" someone is doing something to fix her and we can move on, its hard to leave your two week old baby in the hands of someone else not really knowing what the outcome will be. After surgery the surgeon came to speak with us about what he had found and how he repaired it, he said that the "Nec" damaged and killed 50% of her large intestine, her appendix and 5% of her small intestine beyond repair. They removed all the damaged parts and sewed the small and large intestine back together. He explained that she does run the risk of infection for the rest of her life, and that for the first two years of her life she will she will poo more than normal. But if all heals well in the next 5 days then her prognosis is excellent.
P.S. Addy, Karter & Ella...we miss you too, dont worry about your flowers I wont let them die! Enjoy your trip and have fun and hurry home! Kortlyn is drawing you a picture and I will post it later..xoxxo love shauna and kortlyn
