A little Background

Kyara drank a chemical when she was 2 that scarred her esophagus (the tube that runs from your mouth to your stomach). She was taken care of at CHOA at Scottish Rite and they were amazing! Over the last two years, Kyara has gone in every 1-2 weeks for dilations of her esophagus. We were hoping to be able to open it to a point where she could eat food. However, over the last year it has become obvious that her esphagus was not going to heal. She has been fed through a g-tube (a tube that is attached through her stomach wall and goes straight into her stomach) for the last year and is now having difficulties even swallowing her saliva at night. We researched for many months about the right procedure and doctor to have do the surgery on Kyara. We finally settled on Dr. Arnold Coran in Michigan. He will do a gastric transposition on her. That basically means they will cut out her esophagus completely and pull her stomach up. Dr. Coran is the world's leading pediatric surgeon with this surgery so we feel confident that it will go well. Dr. Coran has a 90-95% success rate of children being able to eat normally after recovery, so we have high hopes!