-----Original Message----- >From: Mark & Jayne Wright <jm.wright@xxxxxxxxxxx> > >Update: >Nicholas took a helicopter ride from Hope hospital to Peoria (Children's Hosp. >of IL) since the surgeon at Hope thought it would be best to have his regular >surgeon do the procedure. (For some weird reason, Hope didn't have a >pediatric surgeon on call, so one of the doctors we had been working with on >the conference got us one.) His spleen had twisted and no blood supply was >getting to it and it died. The bowel had also twisted so he had emergency >surgery to take out the spleen and untwist the bowel on 7/22/06. Luckily the >bowel was of.key. He also had a. coli in his urine. Jayne, So glad to hear that Nicholas is on the mend! Wow...what a journey. Did the docs say what causes the spleen to twist in the first place? Just curious... Chris wife to Pat, mama to Dalton 14yo, Darby 11yo, McKensie 10yo, and Mari (full T18, dob 8/24/01 & The only one who always likes me....unless I'm trying to wipe her nose) Tipp City, OH USA http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/misstippcity/my_photos http://home.earthlink.net/~loganfamily/id1.html http://www.benotafraid.net/story.asp?id=38 http://web.coehs.siu.edu/Grants/TRIS/ Building ___ooOOoo__ Rainbows www.trisomyonline.org Families Helping Families On-line