Hungry

Kaelyn is hungry. And the docs do not want her to eat yet. She tells me everytime she opens her eyes that she is starving and that the mean doctors haven't let her eat for four days. She is breaking my heart. The docs have good reasons for what they do, but I don't think they have spent any amount of time with a 5 year old that hasn't eaten in four days. It is stressful and extremely hard. The surgeons say that since this was such a extensive surgery involving the intestines they want her to take it slow with the eating. Hopefully tomorrow they will let her start with clear liquids. I almost wish she was sedated so she didn't have to go through this hardship. Poor little thing. She is also very swollen, her cells are really leaky causing her to be puffy everywhere. This is also very uncomfortable. I tried to get them to give her some lasiks to help dry her up, but they don't think it would help at this point. Maybe in a couple of days. Kaelyn is getting very tired of people telling her that she will be able to eat tomorrow. Tomorrow is a very long time for a five year old.

At least she is starting to be more awake and not in so much pain from her incision. I guess we have to take the pluses as they come. More tomorrow...