6 More Days Of No Food

Alyssa is not a happy camper. She is very upset and very difficult to console. (I would be though too.) We unfortunately received negative results for the viruses. So, her diagnosis is leaning towards not tolerating her feeds/formula. Her surgeon is starting to agree with us now that it was caused from switching her formula. Her bowel just did not like the change and fought back. So we Alyssa at least 10 days with no food and then slowly start her back on feeds. The doctor is wanting us to think about going home with a Broviac, which is a more permanent IV. We will have an X-Ray tomorrow to see if her bowel is healing. Hopefully it is so that she can start eating. We are also going to push the doctor to do an upper GI test that we have been talking about sooner then later. If it shows that her bowel is not contracting and is narrowing, we will have to have another surgery. We would rather do it now while she is already not eating rather then start her eating and then find out that it isn't working properly and take her off foods AGAIN.