RE: Re: will be having open heart surgery on Jan 7th

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I will hold you all in my thoughts & best wishes .........

LOVE & HUGS<

GrandmomBEV

Re: will be having open heart surgery on Jan

7th

Georgiannna,

I will be thinking about you and next Tuesday and hoping that

she recovers quickly. This must have been a hard decision for you

even with the doctors recomendations. I will be glad when it is

behind you. Take care.

Toni (mom to Abby, 1yr wcf)

> She has a vsd, which we have known about but we didn't think it was

> causing her troubles. Echos haven't shown it to be a problem for

> her. But she has had some problems which have been suspicious of

> cardiac issues so they did a cardia cath on her a few weeks ago and

> we discovered she has moderately severe pulminary hypertension.

This

> is probably caused both by the heart defect and by her bad lungs.

> All of her docs agree that her heart needs to be repaired ASAP

> because at this point she still responds to O2 and eventually this

> condition will cause her not to which would be devastating with her

> CF. So she is scheduled for surgery in less than 2 weeks. We hope

> that she comes through it very easily but she does have a lot of

risk

> factors which she has going against her, but odds are still in her

> favor.

>

> Georgianna and (2 3/4 yrs old)

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