Hello all,
Angie’s is doing really well so far, the first incision was made ad 8:35am, they removed the pancreas and spleen after about 2 hours (which was awesome), and took the pancreas to the lab to start the process of extracting of the islet cells. At about 12pm the reconstruction was complete and the was very little blood loss which is good. At 4:30pm the began introducing the islet cells into the liver and closing things up. So far so good, the doctors here are amazing and have kept us well informed the entire time.
The Surgeon just came out and said EVERYTHING WENT GREAT!!! We are so happy, we still have a long road ahead but what a relief. They managed to get 197,000 islet cells and divided by her body weight its 6321. We’ll be in recovery for three hours and then transition to icu if she is too sleepy, otherwise she’ll go to immediate care , we will be able to see her tonight in the next couple hours hopefully :).
Praise the lord and keep praying 🙂
Thank everybody
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