Post Surgery

Yesterday little Miss Morgan went in for Surgery at 9:30am to remove her left kidney and put in her G-tube. She did awesome!!! The surgery went very well for her and they were able to do most of it via laparoscopic procedures. They did have to make an incision down low on her abdomen to actually remove the kidney but the majority of the surgery was done with the least amount of invasion possible. She was out of surgery and back into her room by 3:30 in the afternoon which was great. We were actually anticipating her surgery to take a bit more time then that.

She had a pretty good first night post surgery. She was still fairly sedated for most of the night but this morning when we arrived to check in on her she had her eyes open and was squirming around quite nicely. It was so great to see her doing that. They had to go back up on her ventilator a bit which was expected but the really good news is that her right kidney is still working surprisingly well on its own and her urine output is still up almost the same as it was pre-surgery. Her specialist Dr. Jenkins made a stop by this morning to check in on her and was quite surprised with how well she was doing. He said that little Morgan just keeps surprising everyone with how well she continues to do with all of this.

Casey and I are so relieved that everything has turned out so well for Morgan thus far. It was a long night pre surgery and a very long day yesterday. Once again her doctors and staff have continued to do an above and beyond job. Her surgeon and his staff did such an excellent job with her and all the nurses and doctors in the NICU are so unbelievably great. They were all so excited to see her come back up to the floor and were all buzzing around to make sure she was very well taken care of.

We have had quite an out-pour from all of our friends and family as well. We once again want to thank everyone for the thoughts, prayer and voices of concern. It is unbelievable to see what a strong, close nit group there is that surrounds us.

They are now working with her fluid intake to try and get her some more calories to help her grow. They will be working with her ventilator as well to try and get it down and hopefully soon to be off of it all together. They are still monitoring her quite closely to see how she is doing with her right kidney and are hopeful that they will be able to leave it in. Seeing as it is working quite well it will help out a lot with her dialysis. It will allow her body to help regulate her dialysis and make it a much simpler process. They will be putting in her dialysis catheter sometime early next week.

We will be giving more updates as things progress and a big thank you to everyone who follows her and has such concerns for Morgan. Thank all of you for the thoughts, prayers, concerns and support.