Tough Going

Karen's been vomiting about once an hour and pretty much everything that went in has come back out. The doctors feel this is an ileus, and the bowels haven't completely woken up from her last surgery. They were overly optimistic in allowing her solid foods so soon. So for now she's been taken off liquids and solids, with the exception of a few small sips of water.

She was taken off the IV pain meds this afternoon as scheduled yesterday when they saw her pain level dropping. But with her puking up all her oral pain meds, she's in more pain than usual. They did eventually realize the problem and they gave her something intravenous. They're also pretty sure she's puked up everything she ate, and so that's over with. Once her stomach has calmed down a bit more, she will start back with a liquid diet again.