The surgery is finished and they did find a cancerous tumor on her appendix. It was removed along with some other part of her colon as a precaution and the doctor seems to feel that is was contained to that area and she should be cancer-free at this point. He also said she did well forthe procedure and will be in recovery for a while and then back to a room for a few days maybe? I don't know how long she will need for recovery, but I'm sure she won't be in any rush to go home.
Also a quick update on baby Frankie. His procedure went pretty well yesterday, but they didn't find anything new that would help treat him. At this point he is improving with all the added assistance from machines and they think that maybe his body just needed some help fighting off an infection and now they are hoping to take him off the breathing machine soon and take him home again for a week or two before they will be doing his second surgery to finish repairing his heart. Yikes...it's a lot I know and Fred explains it much better, but I think a lot of you already get her caringbridge updates so this is for those of you who don't...he seems to be doing a little better is the part that's important!
Baby watch...Katie is due September 14th, but there's no way she's going that long! Watch here for updates and I am also responsible for updating her blog while she's in the hospital so watch The Bartsch Beat on my right column too!
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Oh, gosh. What next? I haven't been keeping up with things real well this week since I don't have a computer at school yet. I'm glad all is going well.
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