Road to Recovery

Sophia had a big, BIG day today. As we had anticipated she had her surgery and all went very well, in fact the actual surgery only took about 2 1/2 hours. The surgery placed her liver, some of her intestines and her stomach back where they belonged. The doctors created a flap in her abdominal wall and used that to close the gap in her diaphragm. We were very excited to hear that...that was the route the doctors took. We have been told that there is less chance of infection and or rejection when natural material is used to fix the whole. Another plus is that since it is her natural tissue it will grow with her and have less chance of having problems in the future. We spent most of the day at the Hospital with her or waiting for the surgery to be over. It was our longest stay at the RCNIC our last sign in was at 10 am and we signed out at 6pm. I like to say that we camped out there.

She still has a long road to a full recovery, but she is definitely on her way. It has been exciting to see her progress and get better before surgery and it will even be more fun to watch her get better after surgery because we will know that with each day she gets better it is one step closer to her being able to go home. Before we know it she'll be wrestling with her big brother Liam and the two of them will be riding in the back seat saying Are we there Yet?

We took this picture of Sophia when we were let in to see her just after surgery, you can see from the picture that she is doing very well.