Spending Time with Brida Before Surgery

We had dinner at home last night.  While Erin was being discharged from the U, Sam brought Mairead to t-ball.  We are trying to keep things as normal as possible to limit how this experience affects the girls.  After dinner, we put the girls to bed and drove back to the hospital to stay in one of the overnight rooms.  We got up earlier than our bodies wanted to be with Brida before surgery.


Brida had no issues last night.  Her O2 sat. levels are back in the lower 90's.  They had to put a foley catheter in her yesterday because her bladder wasn't draining.  This isn't a big deal since they needed to put one in today anyways for surgery.

We sat down with the surgeon yesterday afternoon.  He said he is leaning towards doing putting a Sano shunt in instead of a B-T shunt.  He said that her aorta is smaller than usual for this condition and data indicate that a Sano might be better, but he is going to make the call when he sees the anatomy better during surgery.

We don't have any more news on the surgery time.  The best guess at this point is that they will start to cart her over at 11:30 (MTN).  I will try to post when that happens.  I know I don't need to remind everyone of this, but prayers are needed today.  The most strenuous time will be during surgery and tonight after her body realizes what has happened to it.

Thank you all for taking the time to follow Brida here and for your prayers.  They are definitely being felt by Erin and myself.

Update: Here is a video of Brida just before surgery.