Ken took Ellie to see her Cardio in New Haven on Wednesday and the alien bump on her chest is really one of the wires that were put in to hold her sterum together after her surgery. It has slid or popped and is pointing up instead of flat and is actually right under the skin. A hard fall or impact to her chest could make it acutally poke through her skin.
Yup, try telling an almost toddler to be careful and not to fall on her chest. Fun. In fact it seems as if in the few hours I have been home from my trip she has fallen or hit her chest at least 50 times.
All of this means that they need to do surgery again. The surgeon will go in and snip, take out, or bend back the wire so that it is flat again. We are waiting to hear from her surgeon in Boston. The doctors here in New Haven can do it and want to do it but we want to check with the surgeon who did the orginial surgery. He did such a wonderful job before and we feel like he will want to be the one to do it.
We have been told it is very simple, they will put her under go in and do what needs to be done with the wires, pack it and then sew her up again. If all goes well, she would be in hospital no more than a night if that.
The doctors want it done sooner rather than later to make sure she doesn’t do anything else to it. She doesn’t seem to concerned. It think it iches and she gets annoyed if you touch it but besides that you would never know.
For those who like this kind of thing, check back later and Ken is going to scan the X-ray for you guys to see.
Besides tha, Brussels was great. The weather was beautiful – in the high 60s and sunny -and I walked around for a few hours came back and met the crew for a beer. Yum, Belgum Beer, it was so pretty we sat outside. It was a real bummer to land back in Newark in 40 degree wet and rainy weather. New Haven weather didn’t get any better cold – in the high 30s – and rainy. Yick. It is APRIL right?
Sorry to hear about the wire, but glad it is something fixable.