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Monday, November 9, 2009

Surgery Success



Today Ellie had the eye expander inserted into her right eye socket. We had a shaky start with Ellie vomitting just before going into theatre. Once she was in, surgery only took about 20 minutes, and it was a great success. They have placed the expander in her eye socket and stitched it closed, to ensure it stays in. The plan is to see her eye surgeon in 2 weeks, to see how her body is responding to it, then in 4 weeks (hopefully 7 December) they are hoping to have her back at the Royal Childrens Hospital, to remove the expander and take a mould of her eye socket, which they will use to create the prosthetic eye.

Ellie spent a few hours in recovery before they let her go, as she did hold her breath coming off the anaesthetic, and had a temperature. Apart from being a bit tired, and having a puffy eye, she is doing really well.

Now we are back home, (well actually Mels parents, as the house is still mid renovation) she has had a little bit of dinner, and some milk and is sleeping off the long day that it has been. This week we just need to monitor her temperature as we are having strangely hot weather, which unfortunately in Ellies case, can bring on a seizure.

As most of you know Ellie doesnt eat alot, and struggles to put on weight. Our goal at the moment is to get her over 6kgs (13.2 lbs) and today at weigh in time before her opp, she weighed in at 5.975kg (with her clothes on) so unfortunately we are not having a '6kg party yet' Watch this space, hopefully it happens soon.

I have included some photos of our princess, one is in the appartment before we went to the hospital, and the rest are in recovery. Enjoy!!!





                                                                                                       





                                                                                                     







Posted by Unknown at 8:23 PM

2 comments:

  1. HannahNovember 17, 2009 at 7:03 AM

    I was just looking at your pictures again and I have to tell you how beautiful Ellie is. She looks so peaceful in your arms and really looks like she is a good weight. We are in the same feeding boat so I feel your pain!

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  2. UnknownNovember 18, 2009 at 1:17 PM

    Thank you Hannah... we think she is beautiful too : ) She is getting bigger slowly. But this feeding battle at the moment is hard.... I find that she wants food all the time (which is GREAT!!) But then she doesnt really have much milk in the day, then refuses a night time bottle, so is now waking in the night for milk... But at least she is eating food, that is a positive. What have you been trying with your feeding battle?

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