Mone
04-18-2009, 06:08 AM
To cut a long story short Isabella was diagnosed with "Sagittal Stenosis" -- Isabella had Surgery of sagittal craniosynostosis, the operation is called sagittal strip craniectomy this involves placing 3 omega-shaped stainless steel springs in the suture and widening the skull by opening up the coronal and lambdoid sutures on both sides of the head.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p>
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Isabella went into hospital on the 3rd of April and went in for her operation at 8.30am she went to recovery and we got to see her a 3pm when she was transferred to the Commercial travellers ward which is for children who have had operations on their heads.<o:p></o:p>
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We were in hospital until the Sunday and sent home Isabella was doing really well she was off all morphine by late Saturday night and they took her off all drips etc she was doing great guns she was a little swollen on her left side from where she was lying on it but that was fine.<o:p></o:p>
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1. We came home on the Sunday night she was doing fine then on the Monday morning we had a phone call her hemoglobin levels were too low and we had to get to the hospital straight away and have some test to make sure she didn’t need a blood transfusion a little after 4 hrs they finally got blood from my little girl who's veins just kepted collapsing when they came back they were very low so they decided to place her on a high dose of iron since that she’s go so great I can’t believe it her head has change so much we have had regular checkups we head back on Friday to see the surgeons again and to get organised for the removal of the springs.<o:p></o:p>
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Isabella went into hospital on the 3rd of April and went in for her operation at 8.30am she went to recovery and we got to see her a 3pm when she was transferred to the Commercial travellers ward which is for children who have had operations on their heads.<o:p></o:p>
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We were in hospital until the Sunday and sent home Isabella was doing really well she was off all morphine by late Saturday night and they took her off all drips etc she was doing great guns she was a little swollen on her left side from where she was lying on it but that was fine.<o:p></o:p>
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1. We came home on the Sunday night she was doing fine then on the Monday morning we had a phone call her hemoglobin levels were too low and we had to get to the hospital straight away and have some test to make sure she didn’t need a blood transfusion a little after 4 hrs they finally got blood from my little girl who's veins just kepted collapsing when they came back they were very low so they decided to place her on a high dose of iron since that she’s go so great I can’t believe it her head has change so much we have had regular checkups we head back on Friday to see the surgeons again and to get organised for the removal of the springs.<o:p></o:p>