Emergency Surgery

About an hour after I got home from the hospital, I got a call that they were taking Andrew into Emergency Surgery. His stomach ballooned up and was as hard as a rock. He was still having problems breathing and keeping his heart rate up. When they took him into surgery, they had a hard time getting him to breathe on the ventilator. But, that got slightly better during the surgery. They ended up taking out 23cm of bowel. There was a section right below the stomach that was enlarged, black and full of bacteria. It had twisted on itself and the doctor said it smelled like rotting fish. He said if they hadn't done the surgery, Andrew wouldn't be alive now. He is still a very sick kid and the next day or so will tell a lot. Please pray that he is able to recover. He is on the ventilator and may need to go on the oscillator if the ventilator isn't strong enough. Pray that the antibiotics will kill the infection and that the bowel that was reattached will heal and work correctly.