Well we went to see the cardiologist on Tuesday for her to be checked over from her last Catherization. She has healed very well from this procedure. He then told me that he would be discussing her case with the entire team on Wednesday evening and that he would call Monday to let us know the outcome and the game plan for her heart due to scheduled vacation days. Well we were totally shocked to hear from him that evening. So the game plan for her is to shunt a vessel, made of gortex from her right ventricle to her right lung. Sounds simple right? But in reality it is risky and the phrases "she will be very sick and it could take months for her to recover" The main problem is that the pressure in that chamber is twice what her entire body pressure is, which puts her at risk for atrithmia's and a heart attack. The surgeons are prepared for this and while she will not need to be on a heart-lung machine during the operation, she will most likely need to be on one after the surgery to allow her body to adjust to the pressure. It will also allow her lung to adjust to a normal amount of blood flow. Her right lung has not seen normal blood flow ever, so when blood is pumped in there her body will react in a way to fight that flow. So it is a really risky surgery in a nutshell, but it totally outweighs the reality for us of only having her around for 20 years. Also they are hoping that with normal blood flow to that lung that the pulmonary artery will grow and that they can continue to stent it larger and larger. They have done this before which puts us at ease, but I thought I was going to throw up after I got off the phone and Matt said his chest hurt.
Before this all occurs we have a birthday party coming up for Mia!! I am so excited to have her first and 4th birthday party! And then the next weekend we will have a wedding for Matt's cousin! So she will have some really fun weekends before she has a rough surgery.
Other than that things here have been pretty status quo here...
Jacob's favorite past time to get through the winter months is to play hoops in the kitchen
Logan continues to pass the time with video games and oreos
And Mia continues to crack us up everyday! We especially enjoy when she tells us what's up in Chinese and uses her hands to do it!
Stay tuned for an update about Mia's 4th birthday!!!!
