Aubrey has been doing just fine

Aubrey has been doing fine. It is not say it hasn't been without set backs. She "de-sats" very quickly. This is due to her tendency to hold her breath when she is upset. When she does that her oxygen saturation levels go from 90-95 down to 80 and below.

The morphine they are giving her for her incision pain has been causing her to go in and out of sleep, waking up where ever she has been dreaming. Talk about a strange situation.

She has been taking water and ice cubes well. She has laid off Dad about the apple juice and Sprite. However, she continues to prod the nurse and the doctor on it. The nurse though keeps say "calm down and I will get you some." Bob's rule one of parenting is consistency. If not they kid will not let up. Anyway I have always said she is going to be in big time sales because of her persistence.

I pulled the all night duty and let Jennifer get the rest, she needs it more now than I do. I hope she is sleeping well.

More updates to follow.

Bob

She is in CICU

Aubrey is the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit where she will call home for a couple of days. The room is pretty good size, about 20X16. It has two chairs and one folds out so one of us can sleep.
Aubrey looks great and has good color. She has a lot of lines in her and they are weaning her off the oxygen. Her O2 Sats are in the 90's and when she gets upset they drop down, expected though.
I sent Jennifer to find herself some food.

Dr. Gandhi came in

Dr. Gandhi came in and said she did great. The scar tissue from the last operation was a physical barrier, however, Dr. Lofland from Children's Mercy in KC notated that in his post op notes.

Her vitals are great and they will be moving her to ICU in an hour.

Then we wait awhile and then can see her.

Dr. Gandhi is closing her chest

Dr. Gandhi is closing her chest. Her vital signs are good. They will move her to ICU in about 1-1.5 hrs.

So far so good

Dr. Gahdhi has made the final placement of the bypass. They are getting ready to do a TransEcophageal Echo (TEE) to look at the heart before they start closing her up.

They are beginning the procedure

Katy, the nurse, just came in an gave us the notice they are beginning the procedure.

They just took her in

The anesthesiologist, Dr. Kelly Chilson, and team of nurses just took her back. It took her a while after she was given the versed and seemed wide awake when she went back. They were commenting on how raggedy her Raggedy Ann doll was.

Will post at the next update.

We have the green light for Surgery

We met the team that will be doing the surgery. It was a long day and I have forgotten how long and stressful these days are.

We met up with the Mary the Cardio Nurse who got us started with the EKG. Then it was off for a short tour. Then off for a chest X-Ray. Then off to the Lab to get blood drawn so they can match it for surgery.

Then we managed to get a bite to eat, then off to same day surgery. We met the anesthesiologist and then finally met Dr. Sanjiv Gandhi.

We will need to be at the hospital tomorrow at 6AM. The surgery will last about 5 hours with prep and post not included. A long, long day tomorrow. We will have posts while we are in the waiting room getting updates from the nurses and docs.

Getting ready to go get checked out

We are getting ready to start. After Aubrey get's the green light we will be admitted tomorrow.

They will check her out and it looks as though we will be eating lunch there. It will be a pretty long day.

Please continue to prayer for my little girl.

Kory and Morgan made it in

Uncle Kory and Morgan made it in to spend the weekend with us and the kids before Aubrey's surgery later this week.

Things seem to busy around the house. I am still working on finishing my Crown Financial Online training and getting ready for Cub Scouts to begin.

Wow and to think we have baby number 4 on the way!!!!