Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Update on Lynnea

Lynnea's surgery began at 8am and they were finished and moved her up to the PICU at 7:30pm. Needless to say, it was a very long day for all of us. The surgery itself went OK; the stent was more difficult to remove than they had anticipated, but overall things were fine. She was on the heart-lung bypass machine for about 4 hours; her heart was completely arrested for about 60 minutes, and her brain was deprived of oxygen for about 3 minutes. They were able to reconstruct the aorta close to the way that they had planned.

Even though she is no longer in the OR, Dr. St. Louis explained that she is not out of the woods yet. She is still bleeding, so they are continuing to give her blood. Her blood-oxygen levels are a bit lower than they would like right now. She is still surrounded by doctors and nurses, which is never really a good sign. I have not been in to see her yet because I am extremely squeamish, and Corey says that I really don't want to see her looking like this (he's been in to check on her regularly). I will go in as soon as she is stable enough for them to cover up her chest so that I can handle seeing her.

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