Monday, February 16, 2009

Complications after surgery

So as you all know Shawn had surgery last Tuesday the 10th. Well on Saturday evening, Shawn started bleeding really bad out of his nose. He would get it under control for about an hour, then more bleeding. By 5 am I decided no more dinging around with this. I took him into the ER in Lewistown. Shawns mom came over to the house since Landon was still in bed. The doctor in the ER called the on-call ear, nose, and throart dr in Billings. He advised the Lewistown dr to put a pack in Shawn's nose. They put this balloon type pack in his nose that goes very far up his nose and has a tube running out of it, so they can blow it up more if needed. We got home and the bleeding had stopped for about 8 hrs. At about 9:30pm Shawn was gushing more blood. So I made the decision to take him to Billings, no more fooling around. I called my dear cousin Kristi to see if she would come with me. I was exhaused and just plain worried about Shawn. It was so nice to have her there with me. I had taken Ladon to my moms that afternoon, just incase this happened. That way I would already have him in his 2nd home with my mom and dad. We arrived in Billings at midnight. They got Shawn right in, and got him hooked up to all the monitors and started an IV. That pack in his nose was killing him, and it apparently wasn't stopping the bleeding. They got some good pain killers in him. And let him relax for a bit. They didn't want to take the pack out because they are supposed to be left in at least 48 hours after being placed in there. But after a few hours and more bleeding the ER dr finally took out the painful pack. They packed Shawn's nose with this goze time pack. And said we could go, and then we were supposed to see Dr. Pelczar in the morning. We got a motel just a few blocks away from the hospital at about 4 am. We were not in the room 20 minutes and Shawn was gushing blood again. So I told Kristi to stay and sleep and I took Shawn back to the ER. Finally they decided to call the ENT (ear nose and throat) doctor. He got there about 5 am and worked on Shawn. I won't share all the details because no one likes to hear about large amounts of blood. Anyways the ENT Dr. got him fixed up and said we could go get a few hours of sleep until we had to see the other Dr. I had made myself a little bed with a few chairs in the waiting room since it was going on 26 hours since we had been up, and at the ER in Lewistown. We got about 3 hours of sleep and saw Dr. Pelzcar in his office. He got some blood clots out of Shawns throat and re-packed his nose. As of now we are home and the bleeding has stopped. We have to go back to Billings Wednesday morning to get the pack removed from Shawns nose. I just want to thank you Kristi for coming with and just being my support. Also thank you for the meals you have brought over and everything you have done. You don't know how much it means to us. God Bless you. I love you dearly.

1 comment:

Kristi said...

Oh sweetie, make me cry! I am so glad that you know that you can call me no matter what. I'm glad I could be there. Besides, it was fun getting kicked out of the ER with you! Love ya the world!