Re: 's recovery

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Hey Gobo ( and )

>

> We went to see her today and they had removed that tube

> they

> had been feeding her with, I think I told you that it had

> been

> blocked and nothing going through it..well, when they

> removed it, it was filled with pus..so no wonder nothing

> would go

> through it.

Okay- the nosy paralegal with a half baked medical

education wants to know exactly what is infected? I know

had a segment of bowel die and had peritonitis as a

result. Now from what I know, the feeding tube is either a

naso-gastric tube (nose to stomach) or it is a J tube,

straight into the jejunum which for USC patients is in the

blind limb of the switch, so it is either below the stomach

or not even connected any more. Are we sure it was clogged

with pus and not just dried up ensure or whatever they were

feeding? I thought we were informed that the segment that

opted out of the system was in the last joined segment of

the bowel. So what is pus doing all the way up where the

food is coming in?

I had a case once where a woman had a gall bladder removed

and some bright new intern accidentally poked a hole in the

duodenum which he did not realize. Needless to say she got

a rip-snorting case of peritonitis. but the site of the

infection and the pus was pretty much confined to the area

around the hole, up near the liver. For , I am

assuming the actual infected area is in the area 100cm or

so upstream from the illeo-cecal valve where the small

intestine joins into the large intestine. Or, in other

words, in the site of the dead and probably leaking bowel

that has now been removed. When they do clean up surgeries

like this, they lavage (wash) the area with copious amounts

of antibacterial stuff and pump major antibiotics in via

IV. So it is my impression that the infection and therefore

pus, if any, should be outside the now repaired bowel, in

the abdominal cavity. They are leaving the incision open in

case they have to barge back in and do more cleaning and

rinsing. I thought they would also have drainage tubes in

so they can monitor the production of goop (technical term

I prefer to Pus, which is a nasty word) from the infected

area.

Okay, Okay, I know not everybody obsesses over medical

details, but I have to exercise my knowledge base sometimes

or I loose it. Besides, I need to know where the white

blood cells I am sending energy to are and just what they

are fighting-- focus of image is important to

visualization.

Hang in there ! we and our angels are doing our very

best for you and yours! Can't you feel the healing energy

just flowing in when you close your eyes and relax? that

tingle-- that is us helping.

Nan E. =^..^=

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