Saturday, May 29, 2010
increase on feeds= less ostomy out put
The number for her ostomy output for the day with the increase of her feeds is 164. Strange it seems as the higher the number for her feeds the less she has out? Is that normal, as much as I am happy she is tolerating her feeds I want to make sure this is normal her output varies but has always been very accurate. When she was at 7 she had 203, 8=237,9=181,10=198, and now it has come down some. Well I looked for her abdomen being distended or something and nothing it looks normal and she has not been vomiting, once in a while she will spit up but only some saliva. She gags a ton but thats due to her NG tube, I called GI just to make sure, well told them my concerns and hopefully they call me back and re assure me things are ok. Adriana has a emptying of the stomach this coming week on wend and so wee will see what that shows. I guess that will show if anything is not right in her tummy. My theory is her intestines are adapting to all of the milk she is getting so with time as her feeds go up she is absorbing more and more of what she was putting out as waste before makeing her ostomy output come down. I hope I am right and not wrong,well for now I will keep thinking that her feeds are going great and she is absorbing her feeds. That should keep me good untill I get reassured by her GI team. We will be baptising Adriana next saturday just to get her ready for surgery, we have a consultation on the 23rd of june with the surgeon so he will then give us the big date for surgery. I hope everything goes as planned and she is in and out with no complications. All of her surgerys tend to take long since she does have scar tissue from all of her surgeries she has had. Maybe our last surgery will be reconnecting her stoma. She has no large only about 45 small last time we checked, but she does have a full rectum so she does have something to connect her to. If her intestines are adapting now then we will have a big chance to connect her later. Thats later I am in no hurry right now, when her bag leaks and theres a mess all over the place then I feel she needs to be connected soon, as long as it doesnt give me trouble I dont mind it being there.
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