Abigail Two Months Old - Heart Surgery

Well we are back home and I can finally take a second to let you all know that the surgery went well. Praise the Lord! The day was busy with doctors and nurses trying to get three different surgeries completed with one heart surgeon to do the work.

Abigail with a tape mustache before surgery.

Resting and Comfortable

Abigail's surgery was delayed a little bit which turned out to be a good thing because several of us got a chance to be with her this morning. Aunt Lesa and Aunt Sudie got to see her for the first time. We got to have some special moments all together that would not have been possible otherwise.

So thankful for these moments!

G

Granddaddy Joe and Grammy Sherry

Aunt Sudie and G

Abby went under the knife at about noon and the doctors completed the operation quicker than we had expected. They called about 330pm to say that the surgery had gone well and that they were closing her chest up. We were prepared for her to come back from surgery with her chest open so that was also another good thing. The swelling and bleeding must not have been bad enough to need to leave her open. Also her liver did its job once she was off of the heart and lung machine. The surgeon said that the TAPVR repair was straight forward and that he repaired almost all of her VSDs (See old posts for some explanation). In other words, I am not sure the surgery could have gone any better. Of course, we are not out of the woods yet but we are thankful that it went well today. We got to see her as she passed by and then we got to go visit her in the PICU a little bit later.

Abigail is currently on a ventilator and doing well in her recovery efforts. Hopefully she will be ready to go back to the NICU in a week or so to continue the recovery process. We will update as we know more but probably no pictures for a little while. Our family is so grateful for your encouraging words and prayers these last two months and especially today. Goodnight.