Friday, August 29, 2008

Rebecca's Tonsilectomy

My younger daughter Rebecca had her tonsils out on August 8th, then on Sunday the 17th, started hemorrhaging and had to go to the emergency room. They took her into the OR around 1 am and cauterized the wounds, and she got to go home Monday evening. Tuesday afternoon she started bleeding again, so we went back, had more surgery, they also put in stitches and thought that would be it. Thursday evening, while still in the hospital, she started bleeding again. So back to the OR for more cauterizing and more stitches. It's unusual to bleed at all, rarer to bleed twice, and unheard of to do it 3 times. They gave her meds during the 3rd one to help with the clotting, and gave her a unit of blood & 2 units of platelets on Friday. We stayed until Sunday afternoon. She's been home since then, and praise God, no more bleeding. Until the current scabs come off with no bleeding, we'll keep praying and she'll stick to soft foods.

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