Day-1 – Post-Op Hayley’s Total Pancreactomy & Auto Islet Transplant (TP/AIT) Surgery Here are some Videos from Hayley’s Pancreactomy & Auto Islet Transplant May 31, 2013. Performed by Dr. James Shapiro at Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton Alberta. It was a 13 hour surgery (see photo gallery). Hayley handled it like she does everything else in her life…with CLASS & […]
View PostSurgery Day 🙁 Hayley’s Total Pancreactomy & Auto Islet Transplant (TP/AIT) Surgery This was the hardest decision we ever had to make. Watching your child suffer in ANY manner is just not normal. This is one of the biggest surgeries out there and Hayley handled it like she had done it 100 times before. I could […]
View PostDay-3 Hayley was up most of the night. Hayley looks a little brighter today her nose and throat are really sore from the NG tube and from time to time she feels like she cannot breathe. Pain control is difficult. We had to call the pain service again in the night and they increased the […]
View PostPICC Line Insertion- Video… Hayley after the second PICC Line London Hospital – Loopy!! The PICC is a feed tube. A PICC line is essentially a narrow flexible catheter inserted through a vein of the upper arm above the elbow until its tip reaches a very large heart vessel called the superior vena cava (SVC). Receiving a […]
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