Day 25
Three weeks and 3 days later, Afton has come home. We are all doing well. Afton continues to work on her bottle feeding, but we are still giving her food and medicine through her NG tube (feeding tube through the nose). We have decided to do surgery to insert a G tube (feeding tube through the stomach). Since she is currently on a blood thinner for her clot, so we need to wait to have surgery until she is off that medicine. We are hoping this will happen in mid to late January. The G tube is more common than we thought, and will only leave a scar when she is older. It helps us as parents be reassured that she is getting the calories and medicine she needs, which will hopefully make her first illness less serious.
Thanks again to everyone for all your support. We couldn’t have made it through the last few weeks without our friends and family.
