Well, leave it to Courtney to add something new to the mix.
Today when Jennifer took her in for the bloodwork for tomorrow's surgery, Dr. Doyle (Pediatric cardiologist) wanted to do another EKG. While reviewing the EKG from the pre-op work done last week, he discovered an arrhythmia and wanted to verify whether it was something consistent since they had never seen this before. The EKG showed the same arrhythmia and they sent her home with a monitor that will record her heartbeats until the surgery tomorrow.
Dr. Doyle is going to speak with Dr. Drinkwater (Cardio-thoracic surgeon) about inserting pacemaker leads into the heart during the surgery tomorrow. He advised us that they think the surgery will last at least 6 hours, since they will have to not only cut, but unwire her chest bone and then cut through the scar tissue from previous surgeries.
We have to be at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital at 5:30 AM tomorrow morning. The surgery should begin sometime between 6:30 & 8:00.
Please continue to keep us in your thoughts and prayers.
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Randy
2 comments:
We are praying for oyur family today and know God will truly touch the surgeons. Please let us know if we can help in any way.
Jerry & Elizabeth Lemons
Jerry & Elizabeth,
Thank you very much for your prayers and offer of support. We will let you know if there is anything you can help us with.
Randy
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