giving kisses, and playing with a fleece jingle bell toy ... but ... now
Warp is bruising well beyond the norm.  Nothing dangerous at this point,
and she has come home, but she goes in again tomorrow for a check-up and a
possible blood transfusion (Jumpstart as source, most likely).  (Hopefully
no transfusion will be needed to day or tonight but we'll be up with her in
shifts.) With the adhesions, the friable small intestine, and the bruising
it may well be that she has an autoimmune disorder as part of her problem.
She's home with a catheter still in, and she is VERY active -- more than
we'd like her to be after abdominal surgery and with her complication.
Part of that is just her.  She like this with her only other adult surgery,
too.  Don't know if part may be the steroids she'd had to reduce the
immunity problem.  She has to have only small meals (frequently) for the
rest of her life due to the intestine being able to tear at the slightest
provocation, but she has ALWAYS been someone who threw-up whenever she
tried to eat a large meal.  The tear found with the last surgery was very
old and thought at that point to be an ancient perforation injury, so this
is very likely a condition she's had for a very, very long time, and it's
possible that her tendency to up-chuck so very easily has been keeping her
alive all these years.  Hoping she gets through this bout to have at least
a year more, preferably 2; she's only 6.
[Posted in FML issue 3037]