Please congratulate Lainey – she’s doing great more than three years after spending a month in the hospital and undergoing surgery to reconstruct her bile ducts and remove her gallbladder! In 2021, Lainey was just 2 years old and began to throw up and experience a high fever and stomachache while in Oregon with her family. Doctors there assumed she had a virus, but when her family returned home to #Marin, Lainey wasn’t improving. Lainey’s pediatrician in Marin sent her to our Mission Bay emergency room, and our team diagnosed her with #pancreatitis and cleared her biliary channel and placed a stent. Unfortunately, Lainey's problems returned three weeks later while on a trip to Maui, and she was airlifted back to our hospital, where she spent 17 days recovering until she was well enough for surgery with Dr. Amar Nijagal, an expert in liver and #bileduct disorders who is leading research in the field. Dr. Nijagal reconstructed Lainey’s bile duct and removed her #gallbladder in a compl...