8:47am
Just received a phone call from the nurse -Stacy - from the OR.
Abi didn't wake up when she was given anesthesia. The echo was done, lab test. SHe was prepped for the surgery, intubated and now Dr Kirshbom started actual surgery. He is cutting through the scar tissues that billed up after the first surgery. This may take a while. Next update in 1,5 hours.
J.
Abigail
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
7.27am
7.27am
On July 24, 2009 at 7.27am Abi was born.
Today at 7.27am she went in to the OR
Art
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On July 24, 2009 at 7.27am Abi was born.
Today at 7.27am she went in to the OR
Art
- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone
Minutes before surgery
We are in the room with Abi and just gave her Pentobarbital to make her sleepy. The anasthesiologist just came in to tell us he will take even better care of Abi than before. And they did a really good job.
Now, waiting for Abi to fall asleep in our arms and take her to the OR.
More updates when she's at the surgery.
J.
Now, waiting for Abi to fall asleep in our arms and take her to the OR.
More updates when she's at the surgery.
J.
Up
5.26am
It's been a long short night. Abi was waking up often and so were we.
Now it's time to pack the stuff and head to the hospital in 25 minutes.
Art
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I just wanted to add that Abi slept with me in 1 bed tonight for the very first time. It was an interesting experience. She had hard time falling asleep in a different bed, not her crib, but I think she enjoyed the idea of mommy lying next to her. She woke up several times to reposition and to eat before midnight - the last time she could drink milk. She woke up again around 3am, 4am to see if I'm there and touch my face. It was soo cute. At 4:40am she woke up again, when she had some pedialite.
J.
It's been a long short night. Abi was waking up often and so were we.
Now it's time to pack the stuff and head to the hospital in 25 minutes.
Art
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I just wanted to add that Abi slept with me in 1 bed tonight for the very first time. It was an interesting experience. She had hard time falling asleep in a different bed, not her crib, but I think she enjoyed the idea of mommy lying next to her. She woke up several times to reposition and to eat before midnight - the last time she could drink milk. She woke up again around 3am, 4am to see if I'm there and touch my face. It was soo cute. At 4:40am she woke up again, when she had some pedialite.
J.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Out of hospital
We are leaving the hospital after pre-op. The last person we talked to is Anna- the anesthesiologist from Poznan, Poland who we met last time we were here. We realized how many people have recognized Abi and us, including the radiology tech-we didn't even remember.
Abi did so well today! Though, she cried so much when she had her blood drawn - well when they attempted to do so on both arms with no success. We found out later from Anna that they can do it in the morning while she's asleep and will only delay the surgery by minutes! What? What's the point then? To save 10-15 minutes? I'd so much rather save her tears!
Before the lab.
Chilling on daddy's arms...
EKG
Now, she's sleeping while we are heading to the nearest Target to get a few things, eat on the way and we are going to the Ronald McDonald house where we got the room for tonight. We are not going to stay there after the surgery and will try our luck in the lottery for the room in the hospital. We want to be as close to Abi as possible while she's in CICU.
Thank you all for joining us in this difficult journey number 2!
Joanna.
Abi did so well today! Though, she cried so much when she had her blood drawn - well when they attempted to do so on both arms with no success. We found out later from Anna that they can do it in the morning while she's asleep and will only delay the surgery by minutes! What? What's the point then? To save 10-15 minutes? I'd so much rather save her tears!
Before the lab.
Chilling on daddy's arms...
EKG
Now, she's sleeping while we are heading to the nearest Target to get a few things, eat on the way and we are going to the Ronald McDonald house where we got the room for tonight. We are not going to stay there after the surgery and will try our luck in the lottery for the room in the hospital. We want to be as close to Abi as possible while she's in CICU.
Thank you all for joining us in this difficult journey number 2!
Joanna.
From The PreOp part 2
The cardiology fellow came back with ...... the correct information this time. Yes, we were right and he had to call Abi's surgeon to straighten this out.
Tomorrow's surgery will correct the pulmonary venous baffle created during the first surgery back in December 2009. The surgery will last about 3-4 hours but Abi may be in the operating room for up to 6 hours. The surgery bears the same risks for the possible complications. Going through the scar tissue will be very challenging and unfortunately there is nothing they can do in advance to know more details. They will see as they go, step by step.
We also just talked to the surgeon and seems like the surgery should be first thing in the morning.
More to come.
Tomorrow's surgery will correct the pulmonary venous baffle created during the first surgery back in December 2009. The surgery will last about 3-4 hours but Abi may be in the operating room for up to 6 hours. The surgery bears the same risks for the possible complications. Going through the scar tissue will be very challenging and unfortunately there is nothing they can do in advance to know more details. They will see as they go, step by step.
We also just talked to the surgeon and seems like the surgery should be first thing in the morning.
More to come.
From the PreOp part 1
11.36am
Abi just went through her physical really well, her vitals were fine and then the cardiologist fellow came in to talk to us about tomorrow's surgery. Well it didn't go well- for him. When asked if we knew what the surgery would be for we let him explain the details to us. To our surprise we found out he didn't really know what he was talking about and less than 2 minutes after he came and we educated him on Abi's condition he had to leave to figure out what is going on. He mentioned the Rastelli's precedure that we are familiar with and as far as we know this is not what Abi will have done.
Now he's gone looking for the correct information and we...... keep waiting in the preop room.
Abi just went through her physical really well, her vitals were fine and then the cardiologist fellow came in to talk to us about tomorrow's surgery. Well it didn't go well- for him. When asked if we knew what the surgery would be for we let him explain the details to us. To our surprise we found out he didn't really know what he was talking about and less than 2 minutes after he came and we educated him on Abi's condition he had to leave to figure out what is going on. He mentioned the Rastelli's precedure that we are familiar with and as far as we know this is not what Abi will have done.
Now he's gone looking for the correct information and we...... keep waiting in the preop room.
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