She's Out!

Rory's out of surgery, and still 'out' from the anesthesia. She's intubated for the time being, allowing technology to breathe for her until she's detoxed off the drugs.

Col. Hannibal Smith (aka Dr. Tim Fairbanks) went in rectally and pulled a 2 cm oval sliver from her rectum to biopsy for ultrashort Hirschsprung's disease.

He also performed a laparoscopic procedure consisting of three small incisions - one in the belly button, and two on either side of that. Through these holes, he was able to look around with a camera to see that everything looked very normal. He also collected two more samples for biopsy. These will be tested for one other disease specifically, as well as a grab-bag category of 'other'.

Hannibal removed Rory's appendix, because that's what docs do now if they have a reason to be inside the belly of a kid.

All in all, a very successful procedure. Rory is already starting to come around. No obvious answers were found, so we're back to our waiting game, this time waiting for biopsy results.

Two weeks ago, we were hoping it would NOT be Hirschsprung's disease. Today we are praying that it IS.