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As many of you know Addy has had more than her fair share of surgical procedures. Yes, the majority of them have been related to her having Down syndrome. Many of her procedures were done before we got custody of her and I can't remember all that was done, however, I do have her medical reports in a folder, just not going to dig them out right now. The first surgery Addy had once she was with us was her analplasty surgery and ear tubes. Addy was born with an inperforate anus which occurs in 3% of children born with Down syndrome.She did a great during the surgery. Had it done on a Wednesday and was home on Friday. The next surgery was her colostomy closures. That was a major surgery. They had to hook her bowels back up so they would be in working order and close the colostomies. She had two, one for stool and a mucous fistula just over her belly button that collected mucous. Yummy huh? She did great during the surgery, however, she was just about to be discharged and she ended up getting as staph infection in her central line and required more antibiotics. Naturally that led to her first bout with C-Diff which made her brand spanking new working bottom to work overtime, it was awful. She ended up having to stay in PICU an extra ten days :( The next surgery was to have tonsils and adenoids removed. That was an easy surgery, just an overnight stay in the hospital but a horrible recovery. She was horribly cranky for two weeks, it was so sad! The latest one was just another set of tubes last February. She's had multiple hospitalizations due to being ill, however, we are hoping that that is behind us. Just the fact that last spring she had C-Diff and stayed out and has stayed out this round is amazing.
I tried to take pictures of all of her scars but I just couldn't get them to show up. I did get her belly scars from colostomy closures

and her thoracic surgery on her back/shoulder blade

but all of her central line scars really didn't show up, so these are just cute, she's sooo happy after a bath!