Surgery Monday, Not Friday

It turns out that a child is being brought in from Idaho with an emergency condition that will force all the heart patient's surgeries to be bumped back. Therefore, Meredith's surgery will be on Monday, not Friday as previously reported below. She is stable and should continue to be so over the weekend so I no have no qualms with another child with an emergency bumping her back.

The name of her surgeon is Dr. Hawkins. His profile indicates that he graduated from the University of Kansas, which we all know has a suspect engineering department and overrated basketball team, but I guess I will not hold that against him.

Meredith has been more active today, but over all no real changes. Her oxygen levels have been a little bit cyclical, but not enough to cause any concern. Her heart rate has decreased in the last 2 days to a more normal level. It was in the 190s and now is in the 140s. She also began receiving breast milk through a feeding tube and was very grateful for the switch from the liquid nutrition that was being pumped directly into her veins (She is actually getting a little bit of both).

I have added another link that covers many of Meredith's problems.

Correction I said in my first post that Meredith's left ventricle is underdeveloped, that was wrong. It is her right ventricle that is underdeveloped. As it turns out having a small RV is not as bad as having a small LV.
-Chip