Successful surgery- fully wired

Today was a long day for Sophia, the surgeons and us. She was wheeled to the OR for surgery around 8:00 a.m. and did not return until around 3:00 p.m. One surgeon told us that while they were in removing scar tissue they could see why Sophia could not move food from her tummy to her intestine and they feel that they have fixed the issue. The surgery also included, removing her Appendix, the Nissen procedure (for her acid reflux), Placement of the G-tube also called a Mallencot and her fascia was closed( tummy hernia). You can see in the picture blow that she is "fully wired" but should with in the next week have a lot disappear again. Most of what you see in the picture below is to support her while she is sedated...When someone is sedated they are less likely to breath on their own so the vent initiates breaths if Sophia is to sedated to do it. She has an Arterial Line that is used to draw blood for blood gas tests instead of doing heal sticks. We are fairly certain that the Art line will be removed in the next day or so. She has a cathider so they can monitor her urine output and should have that removed soon as well. So although there is allot of equipment in the photo below there are really good reasons that she has them and most will be gone before we head home. The one thing that you'll see that she'll have for a while is the g-tube. It is the yellow tube coming from her belly. There is a nipple on the tube to keep it at a 90 degree angle so it doesn't close off. As you have heard in past blogs the first 24 hours is an indication of how she'll do. Tonight she is sleeping peacefully due to the medicine she got in the OR. Tomorrow will be a little harder for her due to that medicine wearing off and having the new pain medicine start. She is one tough little cookie and has amazed the staff so far so we are hoping and praying that she'll keep it up and have a fast very speedy recovery.