Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Surgery Update 4
12:00 p.m. - The bulk of the heart repair work is now complete, but they are waiting for Emma's temperature to rise before they'll take her off bypass (they had cooled her body temperature for the surgery). Once they take her off bypass, the heart should kick in again, and they can do the new echo cardiogram and see how the valve is performing. If it looks good, they will close her up and move her to the PICU. Otherwise, she will have to go back on bypass, and they will have to cut through and patch the valve. It's looking like we're a little ahead of schedule, but not out of the woods yet. We should receive another update in an hour.
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Let me know if you guys need food or anything. Thank you so much for all the updates! Hang in there!
Thank you so much for all of the updates- it feels like we are right there in the waiting room with you. :) Glad to hear they are running ahead of schedule.
You guys are great for doing the updates. Glad to hear things are going smoothly.
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