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July 05, 2007
Update on Calley
For those of you who don't know about our past week, I'll recap as quickly as possible and will try to provide updates here as they come.
Severe abdominal pain last Friday night resulted in an ER visit, which resulted in a test that revealed a large mass in one of Calley's ovaries, which resulted in an emergency surgery on Saturday to remove said ovary (which had ruptured), which resulted in persistent contractions that needed to be controlled with some heavy duty intravenous medication, which resulted in an extra four days on the labor and delivery floor of the hospital. (Does everyone know that Cal is almost 18 weeks pregnant? Of course that made all of this more complicated.)
Now we're home, but Cal is still pretty miserable. The pain from a surgery like this is only exacerbated by the pregnancy and the contractions. It's important to control the contractions she's still having periodically, and the medicine that does so gives her brutal headaches. So bad that they make her nauseated. Oh, and she can't drive for two weeks, can't lift anything heavier than five pounds and has to stay in bed or in a chair pretty much all day for a while.
All this crap aside, we're very thankful that the baby appears to be doing just fine, for the excellent care Cal received from her OB/GYN and the doctors and nurses at Christ hospital, and for all the help we've received over the last several days from our friends and family, without whom I really don't know what we would've done. Naomi and Selah are with my parents right now so Cal can have a couple of quiet, peaceful days for beginning her recovery at home. We miss them.
Posted by Matt at July 5, 2007 06:00 PM
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By the way, the mass wasn't cancerous. It was something called an hemorrhagic corpus luteum cyst, which isn't terribly uncommon and frequently disappears on its own. Unfortunately, this one got so large that it caused ovarian torsion that cut off the blood supply and even ruptured the ovary. At that point, there was more risk associated with NOT doing the surgery (which is called a salpingo-oophorectomy; see how much you learn by reading TeamChandler?!)
Posted by: Matt at July 5, 2007 06:12 PM
Matt,
I'm so sorry to hear about all this! We will definitely keep Cal and your entire family in our prayers as she recovers. Thank the Lord the baby seems to be doing okay so far. I know this is challenging but try to remember God is in control. Your friends and family are here for you guys. Please just let us know if there is anything we can do.
Love, Tiff, Steve & Kaitlyn
Posted by: Tiffany at July 6, 2007 10:52 AM
here's hoping for a speedy recovery and a quick reunion of Team Chandler. Give Calley our best!
Posted by: Adam at July 6, 2007 01:05 PM
Matt & Calley,
Our thoughts and prayers are with you both, and we're wishing Calley a quick recovery, and the best for the baby. Love you all and God bless.
Stacie & Diego
Posted by: Stacie at July 9, 2007 03:33 PM