It's late Wednesday evening, Mike is in the hospital. Here's what happened. Late Tuesday afternoon we started seeing blood in the catheter tubes. We watched....at about 9pm we realized that the catheter was blocked. We did our best with our limited resources to clear the tube, we were not successful. So to the hospital we went.
They cleared the catheter and were preparing to send us home..this was at about 2am. When I noticed a large amount of blood in the tubing. Within about 15 minutes he was in excruciating pain. They could not clear the blockage this time. They were communicating with the urologist through out. At 2:25ish the decision was made to take him to the OR. The urologist arrived in about 15 minutes, the OR team was there in about 20 minutes.
They went in with a scope to see what was going on. His bladder had a large blood clot, which they cleared. Where his urethra was reattached to the base of his bladder is still healing and had a small area seeping. The doctor has assured us that he will be fine, this was just a little set back. The doctor was very pleased with his healing so far. Said it is just a slow process. (this was not the original surgeon, he is out of town for the holiday) He also told us that this type of bleed is very rare he had only see it 2 times in his career.
Again, Mike is going to be fine. Our hope is to be home mid-day on Thanksgiving.
Please continue to pray for continued healing.
Love to All B
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Man, Mike is really getting worked-over. Here's hoping the worst is over and he can get back to being Mike. Happy Thanksgiving and God bless you.
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