Saturday, April 22, 2006

One More Post

Well, since it's Saturday and my last post was last Sunday, I figured I would write something just so I could say I got two posts in this week.

Things have slowed down now after the initial activity surrounding the checkup and the cath and all. We don't have to go down to Mobile again until after the surgery. We should be getting a packet in the mail from UAB sometime. It's supposed to give us instructions about when to be there, what to expect and all that good stuff.

I've not done any more research lately. We did see an open-heart surgery on the Discovery Channel last week. It was a two year old boy that had a deformed heart. They went in and fixed the deformity and after three weeks he was doing good. I guess they can only show so much of the actual surgery, but they did show the boys heart when it started beating again after they finished up and they showed the heart-lung machine working. I don't think I'll ever get over my amazement at the fact that they can actually stop your heart, do something to it and then start it back up like it's no big deal.

If I get time I'll do some more looking around and see if I can find some new information on the surgery. I'll also post again when we get the packet of information from UAB. Hopefully it'll come within the next week or two. Until then...

--Paul

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hey Paul! I heard about everything from Courtney. Websites are great ways to communicate nowadays. I hope everything goes great for you. I know it will. I have been praying for you ever since Courtney told me about your upcoming surgery. I tell you what though...my son was on ECMO (the heart/lung machine) for 10 days when he was born. He is now home (3 months old) and doing great. I made a friend at the Ronald McDonald House in Gainesville and her newborn son has a heart defect. Actually he should not be alive right now, but he is. He went in for his surgery yesterday and so far so good. Medical technology is far advanced now. Just keep the faith! Take care of yourself. Let me know if there is anything I can do for you.