They called this morning to say they would be moving her today and they have tentatively planned on having surgery on Thursday to close the PDA. They waited until 2:00pm to get little Kelsey so I would be finished with my CCK test on my gallbladder : ) The big praise for the day, Keeton got to see his baby sister for the first time. The transport team wheeled her out to the NICU lobby for a brief moment for Keeton to see her. Then he and daddy ran down stairs and watch them put her in the ambulance. I got to ride in the front seat of the ambulance over to MedCity. We fell in love with MedCity and her new doctors and staff. One of her new NICU doctor answered a lot of questions for us and gave us the best explanation of what's going on with her that we have heard yet. (Or, maybe it just took several times of explaining for it to sink in). We saw and talked to the guy doing her echo cardio and he explained some things, too.Later that day, we talked to another ped. cardiologist who is also an intensivist about Kelsey's situation. Our cardiologist, the intensivist and surgeon are now wanting to go ahead and do the open heart surgery to fix the PDA and VSD (and small ASD). They are worried the pressures in her lung are starting to get to high. (If they stay there too long it could cause irreversible damage to her lungs.) But the problem is her lack of platelets. So, the hematologist would have to say he though she could handle the surgery at this time for it to happen. We are unsure about this step to do it all at one time but have to trust the doctors have Kelsey's best interest in mind. It's not definite but looking like she might have open heart surgery Thursday.
Talk about praying moment by moment. Today had been one of those days. Tomorrow we will know more after the hematologist see her.
Pictures from today
1st Daddy kissing his little Kelsey girl.
2nd We are going to miss Kelsey's primary nurse, Judy, at Plano Presby.
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