Surgery moved up.
Just wanted to leave a quick note to let everyone know that Evan’s heart surgery has been rescheduled. We will go in for the heart cath tomorrow morning and the surgery will be on Tues. January 3.
Here’s my understanding of what is going to happen tomorrow:
Arrive at Mott @ 7AM
Meet with a nurse practitioner where we’ll go over some pre-procedure testing including:
- anesthesia (he needs to be sedated for this echo to make sure they get perfectly clear pictures)
- echocardiogram
- chest x-ray
- EKG
We’ll go to the cath lab at about 10AM and this will take 2-3 hours. Heart catheterization, if you don’t know, is a procedure in which a catheter is placed into an artery and moved into the heart to look (it has a camera on the end) at the chambers, valves, etc of the heart. Pressures and flows can be measured and if necessary samples can be taken of blood or heart tissue. If you would like to know more you can read about it here. After the cath lab Evan will be moved to recovery. Recovery takes about 4 hours, after which we will come home.
Please continue to keep Evan in your thoughts and prayers as he goes in for another procedure tomorrow and surgery next week.
