Heal, Heal, Heal!!!!

This little girl had a bad day yesterday. Morning was fine but the afternoon was not fun. Her poor G-tube site was so irritated and raw from stomach acid leaking out. It has been fine and only oozing but if she screams or pushes (bowel movement) she excerts force on her tummy and forces stuff out of the healing hole. This is what happened yesterday and the acid just eats away at the skin and I am sure it burns badly. She would be sitting down playing and happy then all of a sudden lean forward in pain and start screaming which in turn caused more stomach acid to leak out and burn more....viscous cycle. We called the Surgery clinic and the nurse said it is normal for there to still be leakage at the site 2-3 weeks after removal and what we were telling her did not sound bad (its bad when your there and trying to calm a baby in pain lady!!). She did say that surgery is a last option. We were thinking they would just sucture the hole closed but its not that easy. When they put the G-tube in they took the stomach and pulled it up and attached it to the outer wall. If they had to do surgery they would have to remove where they attached the stomach and fix that as well as some other things, she would also have to spend the night. Ok....we don't want to do that, we have had enough of surgerys so we are just praying it will heal on its own like the doctors are hoping. Actually today its looking the best I have ever seen it. I started putting neosporin on it as well as some another cream that acts as a barrier between the skin and stomach acid. I then put the gauze over the top and am using some netting over that to apply more pressure. Like I said - its looking very good today.