Day 8: Wed. April 27

Got to Primary's a little after midnight. Didn't see her for awhile, they were getting her settled, evaluating her, and ordering a few more tests. After she was all settled we got to go back and see her, as we waited the surgery nurse practitioner to come and look at Eden to decide if they want to go to surgery tonight or wait until tomorrow. At 3:oo am she finally came and looked at Eden. After seeing her and calling the surgeon (Dr. Rebecka Meyers) they decided that they wanted a CAT scan on her belly before they took her into surgery. The CAT scan was done and we were still waiting to see when she was going into surgery. It wasn't until 5:30am that the Nurse Practitioner came and told us that they were deciding between Eden and another baby which one went to surgery first. It wasn't 10 mins later that the OR called the nurse and told her that they wanted Eden down there a little after 6am. So just before 6 all of us (Mom, Dad, and both sets of Grandparents) followed Eden downstairs to the Operating Room. Just before they wheeled her away we all said our goodbyes and gave her a kiss on the head. They were going in for an exploratory laporotomy, thinking that they were going to find a perforated bowl. But halfway through the surgery we got an update that the bowl was clear and that they were going to look at the liver. On the liver they found 2 lymph tumors one on the side of her liver and wrapped around the back, and another one on the inside of her liver. The tumor on the side of her liver was leaking lymph fluid (chylous fluid) into her abdomen. They drained 500cc out of her belly which is ALOT of fluid for a little baby. They removed the tumor on the outside of her liver and cauterized it, then opened up the liver to exposed the other tumor but were unable to remove it completely because it surrounds the main artery that feeds the liver. They sent the tumor down to pathology to determine exactly what type of lymph tumor it is, we wont get these reports back for 5-7 days. They than inserted 2 drains that come out both sides of Eden to watch the drainage of tumors. They also inserted a central line while they were in surgery to give meds through. When Dr. Meyer came out of surgery to talk to us she explained everything that they had done and what they had found. She said that she has never seem a lymph tumor on the liver before and her specialty is liver tumors. The tumors ares benign (which is great) but these types of tumors do have a tendency to grow back. We will just have to watch her they may grow back sooner than later, or may not bother her for years and years. So now we are back to they waiting game. They are going to keep her sedated and comfortable as she recovers from surgery. She also is going to get another transfusion because of the blood loss from surgery.
After a long and exhausting day Todd and I head home after checking on Eden after surgery. Todd headed back down that night with a few visitors( Jase and Kristi) for Eden.