Stacey Foster - My Life Story

Welcome to Stacey's web site.

The rest of 2004 and the year 2005 were great. Stacey got to about 40kg in weight and had never been so healthy.

She enjoyed trips to the Zoo, farm and local attractions we went to see some shows too and generally had a great time socializing.

Her 22nd birthday was the usual celebrations with family and friends sharing the day.

At about this time we had started to introduce a new Epilepsy drug to Stacey's regime and slowly started to reduce one of her others. September 1st 2005 was Stacey's last seizure and we were amazed and delighted that the new regime seems to really suit her.

With Stacey's weight gain and general well being we decided it was about time we had the bungalow adapted to best meet Stacey's needs. A wet room was created and tracking hoist and changing table installed.

Christmas 2005 was great, we all had a wonderful family time and we saw in the New Year …….. 2006.

In March 2006, Stacey's tummy became hard and swollen suddenly and it soon became obvious that she was in tremendous pain so she was rushed up to the local hospital. She was seen by a consultant and later had a CT scan which revealed that she had a Caecal Volvulus, a twisted bowel and had to have emergency surgery, all in the space of 11 hours.

The surgeon said she was lucky to be alive as her bowel was about to rupture when they operated. They performed a right hemi - colectomy and primary anastomosis, which meant a 1/3rd of her large bowel and some of her small bowel, had to be removed.

Stacey spent about 3 days in ICU and it was so scary to see her like that but she amazed everyone with her recovery, she was in hospital less than two weeks which was unbelievable, Sadly her seizures have started again but we hope that once she recovers from her operation and gets her drug levels back up to normal that they will be better controlled.

Now she is on the road to recovery ….. Again! We feel like we have been here before but we are taking things at Stacey's pace and giving her lots of TLC.

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