isconsin,
on monday (xmas eve) i brought my daughter into the nearby clinic due to her having belly pain. they did a CT and it came back that she had appendicitis. I told the doctor that i felt more comfortable going to a larger clinic (childrens hospital) to have the surgery done. She assured me that they were more than capable of doing such a simple procedure and that it wasnt necessary to switch hospitals. i met with the surgeon and they started surgery at 515pm. they came out at 620pm and the surgeon said everything went good and i could see her shortly. immediately upon seeing her i asked why she was so pale and yellowish looking, they said that was normal. they kept her overnight to keep an eye on her and we were to go home in the morning. the nurse came in to check her vitals often and said that the surgeon kept calling to check on her, i thought that was so sweet. later she said he was going to stay the night so he could be close by if need be adn i thought it was a little weird considering it was just a routine surgery but accepted the extra attention he was paying to her. 6 hours after surgery the surgeon came into our room and checked on her and then told me he was just being cautious because seh lost a little blood during surgery (this wass the first i heard of it) he said he wasnt too concerned but wed keep a close eye on her. in the morning they did a hemoglobin out of her iv and it came back in the 7's which is extremely low so they rechecked thinking it was just diluted by the iv fluids. they checked again and it came back at a 12.9 which was in thse normal range and the surgeon said as long as we could get her pain under control we could go home. i requested to stay another night due to her being so weak and sore. this is when everythign started going downhill... 22hrs after surgery 340 xmas day she started to spike a temp slowly, first 99.6 then 100.3 then finally 101.6... the nurse called the on call dr who ordered a complete blood work. then my daughters oxygen started to drop, so they put her on oxygen. her labs came back and her hemoglobin was at a 7.1. the on call dr came in and said she thought my daughter was bleeding internally. she then called the surgeon who admitted he thought he nicked the epigastric artery but thought he repaired it (i was never made aware of this until the helicopters to transfer her were on their way) i told the dr to start a blood transfusion and seh told me she couldnt because she didnt know my daughters blood type... so they took my daughter into surgery originally without knowing her blood type?! i asked a nurse to please tell me my daughter was going to live and she said we are going to be hopeful but im not giong to make any promises. she made it to childrens where they immediately did an ultrasound, blood transfusion and got her stable. they ran a bunch of test and determined the bleeding had stopped and that she just needed the transfusion to boost her hemoglobin and we stayed in the hospital until last night. sorry this is so long but im wondering what type (if any) case i have? i also have a cousin who is a dr at the hospital who preformed the surgery who said that all the "big wigs" came in today to review my daughters case so clearly they know they screwed up.
on monday (xmas eve) i brought my daughter into the nearby clinic due to her having belly pain. they did a CT and it came back that she had appendicitis. I told the doctor that i felt more comfortable going to a larger clinic (childrens hospital) to have the surgery done. She assured me that they were more than capable of doing such a simple procedure and that it wasnt necessary to switch hospitals. i met with the surgeon and they started surgery at 515pm. they came out at 620pm and the surgeon said everything went good and i could see her shortly. immediately upon seeing her i asked why she was so pale and yellowish looking, they said that was normal. they kept her overnight to keep an eye on her and we were to go home in the morning. the nurse came in to check her vitals often and said that the surgeon kept calling to check on her, i thought that was so sweet. later she said he was going to stay the night so he could be close by if need be adn i thought it was a little weird considering it was just a routine surgery but accepted the extra attention he was paying to her. 6 hours after surgery the surgeon came into our room and checked on her and then told me he was just being cautious because seh lost a little blood during surgery (this wass the first i heard of it) he said he wasnt too concerned but wed keep a close eye on her. in the morning they did a hemoglobin out of her iv and it came back in the 7's which is extremely low so they rechecked thinking it was just diluted by the iv fluids. they checked again and it came back at a 12.9 which was in thse normal range and the surgeon said as long as we could get her pain under control we could go home. i requested to stay another night due to her being so weak and sore. this is when everythign started going downhill... 22hrs after surgery 340 xmas day she started to spike a temp slowly, first 99.6 then 100.3 then finally 101.6... the nurse called the on call dr who ordered a complete blood work. then my daughters oxygen started to drop, so they put her on oxygen. her labs came back and her hemoglobin was at a 7.1. the on call dr came in and said she thought my daughter was bleeding internally. she then called the surgeon who admitted he thought he nicked the epigastric artery but thought he repaired it (i was never made aware of this until the helicopters to transfer her were on their way) i told the dr to start a blood transfusion and seh told me she couldnt because she didnt know my daughters blood type... so they took my daughter into surgery originally without knowing her blood type?! i asked a nurse to please tell me my daughter was going to live and she said we are going to be hopeful but im not giong to make any promises. she made it to childrens where they immediately did an ultrasound, blood transfusion and got her stable. they ran a bunch of test and determined the bleeding had stopped and that she just needed the transfusion to boost her hemoglobin and we stayed in the hospital until last night. sorry this is so long but im wondering what type (if any) case i have? i also have a cousin who is a dr at the hospital who preformed the surgery who said that all the "big wigs" came in today to review my daughters case so clearly they know they screwed up.
