We wondered what would happen after the surgery. They had told us that she would be able to go home that day because her surgery was so early in the morning, but when she came out of the procedure she had a major coughing attack from being sedated for so long. From the coughing attack her incision opened up (it just had a band-aid on it, no stitches) causing her main femoral artery to start bleeding. A little scary, but it worked out ok. Come to find out that when she was in surgery they had to hold compression on the same area for 50 min. CRAZY! After we got everything under control we found out we had to stay so they could watch her over night. This turned out to be the worst part of the whole experience. She did fine, but Syd is so wiggly and active that being hooked to things just to make sure she is breathing sucked. I'll let you know if she stops breathing : )
Anyway, by noon the next day we were literally waiting in a line at the door for the nurse to tell us we could go home. I think they were keeping us until 12 so they could charge us for another day : ( Oh well. After we left Syd did fine and didn't have any complications. We had a couple of things that we wondered would change after the surgery, and they did. One of them was Syd's cough. Sydney has had a cough since she was about a month old that she always struggled with. It wakes her up at night and bothers her during the day. I had taken her into the doctor multiple times for them to check on it, with no solution. WE FOUND IT-HAVE HEART SURGERY! The doctor said that some of the blood and fluid that was re-circulating into her heart could be going into her lungs, causing the cough. I guess he was right (that's why he gets paid the big bucks). Syd has not had her cough at all since about 2 weeks after her surgery. The other thing we were wondering about was why Syd was so skinny. The doctors said she was fine in %, but she didn't have a roll on her body. Now, she is starting to pack on the rolls. When we asked the doctor about it, he said that it is probably because her little body is working extra hard to pump blood, which burns more calories. This makes perfect sense now, that's why she was eating so much.
Anyway, Sydney is doing great and growing like a weed. Here are some pictures from our adventure.
Getting ready to see the doctor, while playing on the turtle.
Check out my cool PJ's
NOT HAPPY.
If you look close, inside the biohazard bag at the tip of the pen is the coil that they put into Syd's heart.
This is hard to figure out, but the bottom right x-ray shows the fluid going back into the wrong side of the heart (the dark part that looks like a liver) and the picture on top is the x-ray after the coil was put in. You can see the huge difference.
Coming out of surgery.
Hi, Uncle!
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