Progress Still Good, But Long Road Ahead

As difficult as it is to see this little month old girl on a ventilator, and with what seems to be a dozen tubes leading in and coming out of her, and a sizable incision, we take comfort in knowing that things went well yesterday. I sense it will be a long recovery. She is currently known as the squirmer in the PICU, because she keeps wrestling around.

Again, everyone we speak with is impressed with how she's doing and were pleased with the surgery. They sense that further down the line, likely in her teens if things progress well, she'll need to have a valve replacement, but I'm banking on medical advances to have that done via scanner or tanning bed, not open heart surgery.

Keep the thoughts and prayers coming - we'll certainly need them to help her move through the PICU and mend to the point where we can hold her again and get her home!

Thanks again for all.