My 10 year old daughter was admitted to hospital recently with a ruptured appendix. Once they got her into theatre the infection was so bad that they had to open her right up to wash out the infection. She had peritonitus so spent 4 days in intensive care, ventilated and then kept sedated. A few days later her stitches popped open as the surgeon obviously hadn't been able to remove all the infection. She then spent a further three weeks in hospital recovering as she was very very poorly. She had a negative therapy VAC system attached to her tummy in order to drain out the infection, she was sent home with it and the Diana nurses looked after her in our home.
The VAC system was removed a few days ago as her tummy is healing nicely, although she has a huge wound, dressings are being applied three times a week by the nurses. I think she's ready to go into school, mornings only for a while. What do you think? Am I being too hasty? She's missed so much school, but on the other hand I nearly lost her. :( What's everyone's thoughts?
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Children's health
Daughter had ruptured appendix /peritonitus
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stirrupleathers · 01/01/2016 22:46
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