Elizabeth had surgery this morning and did well with it and coming off the ventiator. Her surgery was to put in a gastric tube (gtube) and a procedure called nissen fundoplication where they wrap the top part of her stomach around to make the opening smaller so that she cant reflux. The reason she needed the nissen was to keep reflux from causing her to aspirate and irritate her lungs more. She was in recovery for a little while, and came back to the room where we are now . She has done well all day she is in some pain when she wakes up so she has been on pain medicine and sleeping alot. She hasnt had anything to eat since last night and they do not plan to start feeding her until the morning to give her stomach time to get used to the tube. They will start by just giving her pedialyte through the tube to make sure she does ok with it and then we will move on to giving her formula. She will be here for at 3 to 4 days for her body to adjust to the tube and for observation to be sure she is able to tolerate the feeding and make sure we understand how to use and care for the tube.
HOPEFULLY this will be the last major thing she needs done and this will put her on the right track for gaining weight and getting her lungs to grow.
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