The day they wheeled 2-year-old Baelyn Schwab into surgery to get a new liver, her skin was orange, and she was delirious.
"Her eyes didn't look like they were attached to her head anymore," her mom, Kelsea Schwab, told CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta."They were just rolling all over."She would still ask for bananas and ask for juice and ask for snuggles, kind of like she's still there, but not really," she said.Seemingly out of nowhere, Baelyn's liver had become so damaged that it could no longer clean ammonia out of her blood.
The operation lasted from 8 in the morning until 4:30 in the afternoon on May 5."She came back from surgery, and she wasn't yellow anymore," Schwab said. It was an astonishing change.But Baelyn is not out of the woods and won't really be for another year, Bhatt says.She will stay in the hospital for at least two more months, her mom said. After that, she will be monitored frequently while her body and her new liver get used to each other.
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