~Abby's upper GI went well today. Thanks for praying for her. The results were not good. Her stomach did not empty at all. Where it is supposed to empty is compressed by the spine. When we turned her on her left side, it emptied some, but that was it. Her anatomy has the first small bowel looping back over Itself, and back over the spine. The rest of the small bowel is entirely on the right side again. She had some dilation in that area indicting the positional blockage we suspected. There were intermittent areas of ileus throughout the large colon. All of it indicates further failure of her gastrointestinal system. Obviously not what we hoped to hear.
~Her spine is probably unrepairable. Even if she was healthy, the curve is too severe.
~Jeff will come in the morning to discuss all of this with her doctors and we will make some decisions. We were presented with end of life options today. I'm still praying that God will intervene and take this choice out of our hands.
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