Surgery Update 3.0

9:25 AM   We sent her off to the OR about an hour ago.  We anticipate some challenges getting through the scar tissue. It's very hard to see your baby get wheeled away when she sleepily asked for me to sit on the bed. I told her I would be there when she wakes up. She said she would be good for "Nenna"...what she calls Dr. Romano.

In leaving the pre-op area after Bernie was wheeled away, we got in the first elevator that opened up to take us upstairs.  In it was an older couple, probably in their late 70s with their adult daughter with Down syndrome coloring a blue bird in a wheel chair.  That made us both feel really good.  We will take all the good signs we can get.

Chaplain Julie (our favorite) met us in our room and we had a nice prayer together.  We will just be wandering around together and packing up our room here in general care to move to the PCTU. Not really feeling social at all, but will keep updates coming as we can.

We won't see either of them for a few hours. It may be well after lunch.  Updates will be added to this blog entry as we have them.

Thanks for following along.

11:22 We just got word the Bernie is "playing nicely" in the OR. They got through her sternum without issue. Her chest is open, all the lines are in, and she is on bypass (heart lung machine). There is a room now available for Jeff and I at the Mott House through the weekend (8 in-hospital Ronald McDonald accommodations). It has a single bed and a recliner chair where we can sleep and take naps to survive the PCTU. We should have another update in an hour on how the sub-aortic stenosis resection is going.

12:08 the resection is complete, she is off bypass, her gradient is at 0 from 97(wow! We were going to be happy with 15-20). We will be seeing Dr. Romano soon and they even think she will be extubated today. Let the recovery begin! This is where we can really hope and pray she still plays nicely!!