Not so great days - Aria MacDonald

Not so great days

2 Mar at 9:10 am by Hamish MacDonald

Since the last post where Aria had a great day, things have not been quite so rosy here.

Aria has had a couple of days where she has been a little upset and running some fevers and having her heart beating a little too fast. While they are happy overall with where she is at there are a couple of things that need to get sorted for her to really push forward with her recovery.

First of these is the stitches connecting her new bowel together need to stay attached and not leak anymore. These leaks contaminate her abdominal cavity, causing the fevers and necessitate further surgery to correct them. They also may prevent feeding from occurring till they are sorted. Today we face another visit to the OR to repair another leak that has developed or returned. For those keeping score this is visit 10.

Secondly is her diaphragm which continues to be a source of concern. They believe this was bruised during one of the many surgeries and will take some time to heal and enable her to breathe to her full capacity. This obviously effects when she will be able to finally come off the vent. There have been various scenarios given some rather grim (months on the machine, giving her a tracheotomy), some more positive but either way she has a way to go and some work to go to be free of this machine.

All in all it has not been a pleasant few days for us, and on top of this we have a meeting with a bunch of hospital big wigs today to talk about our experience at the hospital.

All of these things weigh heavily on us and we would appreciate prayer for them all.

Luckily in this situation we have people who God has given us to help provide comfort and support.

Asher again got treated to a zoo visit yesterday courtesy of Elaine and her tribe.  He was very cute when he saw Elaine’s huge van, he shouted “Bus!!” and pointed towards it.

Anita got to have a night away from hospital courtesy of Carol and Cordell, who welcomed her and Asher into their home.

Finally Randy has risen out of his sick bed in time to offer his support to us for our meeting today, it will be nice to have another friendly face in the room.

Although times are tough here, God knows well enough that we need people around us to lend a hand. We are really appreciative of all these people and all that they do, as we are to all of you who read this and pray for Aria and our family. THANK YOU.