Late last week the theory was that Flynn's surgery would be Monday, today. Then Friday, I think, they decided that he needed another echocardiogram: the pressure between heart and lung was still equal and needed to correct itself. In the womb it is equal but changes afterwards. CDH babies have difficulty making the transition, and this causes hypertension, which is one of the main killers of CDH babies . . . Too much blood being forced into too small of a lung.
So they did the echo, and it turns out that he had corrected his pressure. Going there this afternoon I discover that they had just decided to do the surgery within an hour. My wife hurried over, and we talked about the surgery with Dr. Yang, and signed the consent. However, shortly after they decided that it would be best to have the operation tomorrow to make sure they had maximum staff available in the pediatric surgery department.
Roller coaster! I felt drained afterwards, but still upbeat. Dr. Yang feels he won't need ECMO, that he should come through with flying colors. He will be worse before he is better . . . But he has a chance to be better.
Tomorrow will tell how it begins, because the waiting begins again.
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