SURGERY UPDATE - GOOD NEWS!!!!
Hello all in Laurie's Blog-land! Joanne here with your friendly surgery update.
I've spoken with Brenda numerous times today. She just called me to tell me that LAURIES OUT OF SURGERY and doing well. (I breathed the big sigh of relief as well.) Per Brenda Dr. Cohn just came out to her, Beth & Mrs. Brooks and said that she came through well. As is par for the course where Laurie is concerned, there are positive and negatives. What Laurie will see as a BIG negative is that they did in fact have to replace the valve with a mechanical one, not the prosthetic which she was desperately hoping for (Coumadin's the big negative for her). Laurie was hoping for a valve size of about 28-30. Dr. Cohn attempted to put in one ranging in that size but due to the extremely small size of her heart valve he was unable to, so he put in a 21. Dr. Cohn stated that she literally has the smallest valve opening that he's ever seen. In his vast experience in his field that's saying something. Brenda was told that Laurie was currently being stitched up and that they would be able to go in and see her around 2:00pm.
I told Brenda that now she HAS to go eat something and settle down before she goes in to see her, she hasnt eaten a thing today. Brenda will call me after she sees Laurie and give me more of an update. I'll repost again as soon as I know something further.
Be back soon,
Joanne
I've spoken with Brenda numerous times today. She just called me to tell me that LAURIES OUT OF SURGERY and doing well. (I breathed the big sigh of relief as well.) Per Brenda Dr. Cohn just came out to her, Beth & Mrs. Brooks and said that she came through well. As is par for the course where Laurie is concerned, there are positive and negatives. What Laurie will see as a BIG negative is that they did in fact have to replace the valve with a mechanical one, not the prosthetic which she was desperately hoping for (Coumadin's the big negative for her). Laurie was hoping for a valve size of about 28-30. Dr. Cohn attempted to put in one ranging in that size but due to the extremely small size of her heart valve he was unable to, so he put in a 21. Dr. Cohn stated that she literally has the smallest valve opening that he's ever seen. In his vast experience in his field that's saying something. Brenda was told that Laurie was currently being stitched up and that they would be able to go in and see her around 2:00pm.
I told Brenda that now she HAS to go eat something and settle down before she goes in to see her, she hasnt eaten a thing today. Brenda will call me after she sees Laurie and give me more of an update. I'll repost again as soon as I know something further.
Be back soon,
Joanne
posted by Laurie @ 1:16 PM
1 Comments:
At 1:55 PM,
Barbara Preuninger said…
Hi Laurie,
Just checking in, and I'm glad to hear the surgery is over. I'm sorry it did not go the way you had hoped. I will still be thinking of you as you recover.
And by the way, your heart is only small in the physical sense. Metaphorically, you have a very big heart.
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