Jaclyn was born April 29th, 2008. She weighed in at 8 lbs. 5 oz and was 19 1/2 inches long. When she was 9 weeks old we took her in to the family doctor because her skin color and eyes were more yellow than we thought they should be. Dr. Coss decided that he wanted to have an ultra sound and some tests run to make sure than everything was fine. A few days later and a trip down to the Phoenix Children's Hospital to visit Dr. Shub, we found out that she had Biliary Atresia. This is a rare condition in infant children in which the bile duct between the liver and small intestine is either absent or blocked.
July 16th at 7:30 am Jaclyn went into surgery for a liver biopsy and exploritory surgery to confirm what the doctors suspected. About an hour after she went into surgery the Doctors came out to let us know that she indeed had Biliary Atresia. She had no bile duct and they also said that she was missing her gall bladder. From there they went back into surgery to do what they call the Kasai surgery, where they take part of the intestine and make a bile duct for the liver to drain. She then spent the next 5 days in the ICU.
She is now out of ICU and recovering pretty well. They are still watching her swelling to get it under control.
2 comments:
Cute blog! I was wondering if you could forward all my messages to Jeff since he wants to tell the world about Jaclyn
Everyone who reads anything that Amy Smith says on this blog should know that 90% of it is false and the other 10% is pretty much false too. But as for me I really appreciate all the fasting and prayers that have been offered on behalf of Jaclyn. We love and appreciate all of you. Jeff
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