The blood red saga continues...

Unfortunately, Saturday night was not the end (see previous post below to get caught up).

Madison began bleeding through her nose, mouth and eyes again Sunday night, and was taken back to the hospital to have packing put in her nose.

Unfortunately, by late Monday morning, she was bleeding again through the packing, and we had to go back to the doctor.

She was beside herself, and I was having a hard time keeping it together, but Madison’s mom and I had to for Madi’s sake.

At 2:30pm, the doctor said “He had never seen this before in someone so young and active, and that she needed to go in for surgery again to try and stop the bleeding. Hopefully we won’t have to give her any more blood transfusions.”

Madison is 12, she is a competitive gymnast (2005 state champion for her age group and level), rides snowmobiles, a motorcycle-she broke her arm 2 months ago, so it is very unlikely she had blood clotting issues, or we would have noticed. (Whether or not she should be doing all of those activities is a different issue)

On Saturday, her blood count was down to 16 (30 is normal), but it did not drop below 26 on Monday, so she did not need a transfusion.

By 3pm, she was taken away. The surgery was done at 5pm.

It was a very hard two hours, but at about 5pm the doctor came out and said that it went well, and that he had packed everything better this time, but he had no real answers for us. They are keeping her in the hospital for 3-4 days so they can monitor Madison and keep her under close supervision.

Her mom, step-dad and I are rotating who is going to be staying with her so she always has someone with her. Her mom is sleeping there tonight and I am heading there in the morning.
Please pray for all of us, and that when Rachel goes into labor (we are going to be delivering at the same hospital Madison is at now) I will be able to focus on her and the new baby because Madison is in the clear.

Thanks.