Bernadette

Arielle had a hernia operation today. She had an inguinal hernia – this is a small opening in the abdominal wall where something has fallen through. For Arielle it was her right ovary and fallopian tube that came through. She also had a small hernia starting on her left side. Had she gone full term this problem would most likely have corrected itself within the womb however once the baby is born it does not fix itself. As the opening tends to close up and strangulate the hernia it had to be operated on immediately to save her ovary and protect her from severe infection (it would go gangrene had the opening closed). It happens in about 2.5% of premmie baby girls (25% of premmie baby boys). She had the surgery this morning and has been asleep for most of the day. She is staying in hospital overnight (I am with her) and should be released tomorrow morning. Her only problem at the moment is that she is having little episodes where she is forgetting to breathe and/or holding her breathe. She only went blue one time and hopefully it should settle within 24 hours. She is not feeding that well but again that is to be expected. Apparently there is not much pain afterwards and they often either don’t need any painkillers or just Panadol for 24 hours.

As you can see from the pictures the house renovation is coming along really well. The expected completion date looks like it might be pushed back to February unfortunately. The roof and framing is finished and now they are working on the inside. As you can see from the photo of Tiernan he loves being a little helper (the Bosch tool is a toy one by the way!!).

My white cell count has got back to normal after my daily injections and thankfully I can stop them today. So all going well chemo no 12 should be going ahead on Tuesday.

My sister Natalie arrived on Saturday and it has been just wonderful to have her back home. It has been a tough year for our family this year - a few weeks ago dad was diagnosed with prostate cancer and now with Arielle having to have her operation you begin to wonder how many bad things can happen to us in a year! Dad’s prognosis is good - he will have an operation to remove the cancer and the doctor is confident that will remove all of the cancer. He will take about 2 months to recover but at least at the end of it the cancer will be gone.

After the luck (or lack of) we have had this year we will be very glad to see the end of 2006 and the start of a fresh new year!

I hope everyone else is well and hopefully one day we will be able to make it to mum’s group! 

2 Responses to “Arielle’s operation”

1. Tiel S-K Says:
   November 2nd, 2006 at 11:31 pm

   the house is looking great Bernadette. The photos of Tienan and Arielle are very special.

   keep smiling. you know I’m thinking of you,

   Tielx

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