11:12 pm
This is the first time I was able to write today. We did finally make it home today. We are glad to be home, but over all, today was a tough day.
Mackenzie had extreme nausea in the night and in the morning. There are two types of nausea with this surgery. The first kind is due to pain meds. That is not a concern. The second is if there is an obstruction in the intestine. So they really were not comfortable releasing us if there was a possibility of an obstruction. There was no vomiting so that was making them lean towards a reaction to pain meds.
Every time someone came in Kenz kept saying she needed to go home. So finally we convinced them to release her. We got home at 2:00 pm. Kenz had to come home with the JP drain bulb still draining out of her stomach. She also made the decision to switch to taking Tylenol for pain because of the nausea. This desicion makes her feel more pain but she said she will take the trade off.
Her stoma is having a lot more output than usual so she will start Imodium tomorrow to slow things down a bit. She has to measure all liquids going in and all liquids going out.
Kenz has had a very emotional day. I think it's hard for her to feel the pain and be stuck inside recovering on a hot summer day. Also she is missing Mason.
She had a therapy dog named Miracle in to visit her today before we left.
Her dog Gala was so excited when she got home and hasnt left her side!
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