She is out of surgery

The surgeon just came in. She is out of surgery and we will see her in an hour or so. But, the doctor is baffled and this is never a good thing. He did what he planned to do, removed the aneurysm and fixed the right and left artery, both were blocked. But, the patch that was already in place, needed to be repaired. There were a ton of "leaks" in the patch and they spent a long time fixing those. The concern is that she could continue bleeding from these holes, but she had not stopped, or something along those lines. So, they have left the vent on her and will watch her. If things are not better tonight, they will have to go back in. He THINKS things will be ok, and it will get better on it's own. But they don't want to take the cath out if they might have to go in.

The other issue is that the pressures were still higher than they should be after this repair. This is what baffled him. It could indicate more blockage farther out in the branches of the lungs. It is improved and there is no short term danger. They will do another lung profusion scan before we leave to check things out. It is not something that they will fix while she is here, he does not want anyone messing in there right now. He said he will talk to Dr Goel(our cardiologist) and we will decide on course of action for that.

We of course are very devastated and just asking that you pray with us. Most important that the bleeding stops and they do not need to go back in tonight. We will deal with the other problem later, but I just do not want her to be put back into surgery today.

Please pray for me as I finally get to see her soon. Obviously they are going to be keeping her very sedated and yesterday they told me "prepare for her to look dead".

On a good note, I asked when she can go home and he said he hoped she would be home in time for the superbowl! ;0)