{"id":70,"date":"2023-06-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cota1.wpengine.com\/cotaforsavannastrong\/2023\/06\/20\/bile-drain-update\/"},"modified":"2023-06-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T00:00:00","slug":"bile-drain-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforsavannastrong\/2023\/06\/20\/bile-drain-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Bile Drain Update"},"content":{"rendered":"
They have confirmed that they think that Savanna has a Biliary stricture that is causing her elevated numbers. <\/span><\/div>\n
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They would like her to come in for a PTC ( A percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography (per-kew-tay-nee-us trans-hep-attic col-an-jee-og-raf-ee) is a way of looking at your bile ducts using x-rays. The doctor puts a long thin needle through the skin and into your liver and bile ducts.) <\/span><\/div>\n
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They are 90% sure that she will need a bile drain like she had in 2022.<\/span><\/div>\n
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For the PTC she will be admitted for the procedure and stay at least 24 hours. The drain will be in place for at least 6 weeks, at that time they will check to see if the stricture has been “fixed” or if they need to keep the drain in for another 6 weeks. The drain will have to be flushed 1x a day, and she will need to wear some sort of wrap on her belly to keep it out of the way. We plan to send her 2x a week to preschool in the fall, so this will cause a little bit of extra work.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The good thing is they said this is NOT urgent and we can wait until mid-August for the procedure so she can swim the majority of the summer! Which is a huge relief for our water baby! <\/span><\/div>\n
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We did want to go to Florida in mid-October so hopefully she only needs the drain for 6 weeks and not 12. Because most of Florida vaca is swimming!<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They have confirmed that they think that Savanna has a Biliary stricture that is causing her elevated numbers.    They would like her to come in for a PTC ( A percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography (per-kew-tay-nee-us trans-hep-attic col-an-jee-og-raf-ee) is a way of looking at your bile ducts using x-rays. The doctor puts a long thin needle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforsavannastrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforsavannastrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforsavannastrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforsavannastrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforsavannastrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforsavannastrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}