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This will be short because I feel completed defeated right now.  What was supposed to be an outpatient procedure with an overnight stay has turned into a two week hospital stay and a surgery.
During her catherization they found chyle accumulating in her chest cavity.  They drained this and placed a pig-tail chest tube to allow excess fluid to drain.  She has had a significant amount of drainage since Monday. 

I might have some of this incorrect as I am overwhelmed, but here is the gist:

The thoracic duct drains chyle into the left subclavian vein
Lucy's left subclavian vein is either non-existent or obstructed
Chyle would continue to leak into her chest cavity.

Dr. Husayni and the team discussed her case at conference and decided to treat this with surgery.  They will go in through the right side of her torso and ligate the duct at the base.  A leak can be very hard to find so they feel doing this at the base gives us the best chance at stopping it.
So we will stay at the hospital until Monday and recover the following week.

I want to scream 'This isn't fair!  Hasn't she been through enough?'  But this is life.  Sometime you are dealt a hand and all you can do is have faith that God's plan is far greater than you can even imagine.


Obviously we ask for prayer for a safe and successful surgery.  But we also ask for some peace and understanding as we deal with this unexpected news.