hello all....it's momma this time (daddy is pooped),

Well today was a really rough day. Abby has continued to throw up her saliva and has started to retch and gag a lot more. (retching is like dry heaving) Today she was only throwing up every hour or so which is an improvement from yesterday. She is still in a lot of pain, which is SO HARD to see. (She's still on morhpine along with another painkiller and anti inflammatory that they have added called Toradol.) That's our baby and we are completely helpless. It's awful.

She is just absolutely exhausted since she hasn't gotten more than an hour and a half stint of sleep at one time since she had surgery Friday morning. Nor has she had anything to eat or drink. We did not start fluids today like we had hoped. The docs said that as long as she continues to vomit, they can not start any fluids. And if we don't get some food in her soon, they will have to do another surgery to put in a central line. Kind of like an IV, but for intravenous feeding. We hope and pray it doesn't come to that.

We are also concerned about all of the retching and gagging. If that continues it could tear and rip apart all of the stitches from the surgery, making all of this for nothing. Then another surgery would have to be done and the percentage of a successful second surgery is much less and continues to get less and less with each revision.

And on top of all of that, her IV went bad already, so tonight they had to take it out and place a whole new one. Never fun.

I wish that I had better news to report. We are praying hard that tomorrow shows more promise. Our Abbygirl has gone through SOOOO much already. We are ready for her to catch that break that she is SOOO due for.

Thanks for all of the love, support and prayers. You have no idea what it means to us. It is what helps us be able to endure it all. We love you