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April 2014 Moms
*sparky*
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Thoughts & Prayers Needed
*sparky*
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I posted on here a couple of weeks ago that my dad's wife needed open heart surgery. Well the surgery was yesterday and it did not go well. She has had significant complications, they have taken her back into the OR twice since the initial operation for bleeding.
They are keeping her sedated and on the heart bypass machine until at least Friday. At this point they have given her a 50/50 chance of surviving and expect she will have a rough recovery if she does come through. She went into cardiac arrest at one point and she may have had a stroke.
SO please please any positive thoughts and prayers you can send would be appreciated.
I am trying to knock out some work I have to get done this morning so I can get down to the hospital so if I don't check back in for a while that is why.
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Re: Thoughts & Prayers Needed
I'm thinking of you and pray the doctors figure it out! My mom has had significant problems with her heart during my pregnancy (I posted about it) and we very seriously thought we were going to loose her, but she pulled through. She is not the same but she's still here-I'm praying for the same or better for you.
Thank you so much everyone. She seems to have stabilized for now and they have gotten the bleeding under control. They have her in ICU on something called an ECMO which has basically taken over her heart function. We won't really know much more until they take her off the machine. The survival rate for people who have been on ECMO is something like 30%-50%.
My dad is home getting some rest and I have to pick DS up from school soon. His first question will be "how is Mom Mom?" and I am dreading having this conversation with him.
He made a huge get well card for her last night with a picture of a cute little heart saying "I feel better already!"
So please keep the positive thoughts coming. Unless something goes wrong I don't expect to have any more info for a few days.
(And I hope I didn't step on your toes for speaking for you, sparky!)
I will say that helping my DS deal with the death of his grandmother who he adored has been one of the hardest things I have had to deal with. Going to her funeral yesterday was absolutely brutal. My dad gave DS a cross on a chain that had belonged to her and my DS clung to the cross during the service and just cried.
But today he is better and I keep telling him it will get easier.
My ILs have not called and did not send flowers and as far as I am concerned right now if I never had to see them again it would be ok with me.