Paul and I have been with Hattie for about an hour or so. She is still heavily sedated, but they are weaning her so that thy can make sure that she can breathe on her own before they remove the breathing tube. They've warned us that it will be rough, as she isn't going to like having the breathing tube in. And she'll be hungry and thirsty.
Before she wakes up, I'll try to give on overview of what the surgeon told us when we met with him. Apparently there was a little more to the story than what we were told at our last update. After they took her off bypass, they did an echo to make sure everything looked good. The echo showed a narrowing of the vein that they repaired. He wanted to make sure that it was just the echo technology not being fantastic, so they ended up un-patching the ASD (hole in the atria walls) and checking on the vein repair. In real life, it didn't look narrow, so they repatched it and took her off of bypass again. Originally, they patched the hole with a small piece of her pericardium (tissue from the sac that surrounds the heart). When they had to re-patch it, they used bovine pericardium. Science is amazing, isn't it?
Please keep the prayers coming, as he will need them as she is coming out of the sedation.
Her doctors sound amazing and they are being so thorough with your precious girl. We love you all and are praying hard. (((hugs)))
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