Day 45

THURSDAY EVENING 10/25

Jeff had surgery on Wednesday afternoon. It was supposed to be a quick surgery. Go in change VAC dressing and out. No ventilator. Things did not go well. What was supposed to be a 30 minute procedure ended up being a 2 1/2 hour surgery. The surgeon came out and told us he wished he had good news. When he took out the VAC dressing he saw that part of the duodenum and part of the jejunum had died.( the first two parts of the small intestines) When the doctor touched the necrotic part of the bowels Jeff's blood pressure dropped and his heart rate went through the roof. His blood sugar also dropped. The release of poison to Jeff's system made his blood acidic. The anesthesiologist came to see me after his surgery and told me that they almost lost Jeff. She said that it was nothing they did and that God saved Jeff.
Today the doctors are more optimistic, they think that this is what he
needed to have done. Today is the first day that the drainage from his NG tube has not been bloody. Jeff is scheduled for surgery again on Monday afternoon.(they are going back in to check the area and change the VAC dressing.)