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<font color=blue>Miracles are amazing!<br><font co
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I didn't post this last week. Not because I didn't want all your prayers and pd, but I just forgot with all that is going on.
If you don't remember, my nephew Adam was born two years ago with a faulty tricuspid valve. He had emergency open-heart surgery days after he was born, and another when he was about 6 months. The doctors plan to make his heart operate on just one half of the organ. He had his final surgery last Friday (7/11/03) to put in a Fontaine Shunt. That surgery completed the task, and he is now operating on 1/2 of his heart.
This miracle is amazing. They expected the surgery to last 5 hours, it lasted 3. My sister called me Friday evening, and was so excited. She said, for the first time in his life, his fingernails and nose were pink, not blue. He was not puffy and his cheeks were not bright red. He was eating by Saturday night.
Yesterday they removed the rest of the tubes from his heart, and they took him for a walk around the hospital. He went up to a playroom and played for hours. My BIL told me he woke up at 4:30 yesterday morning, and was still going strong at 5 in the afternoon, no nap. This is a two year old. He has so much energy, he just doesn't know how to handle it. Before this surgery he could play for 1/2 an hour and then he sat down and rested for an hour or so. Now he just isn't tired.
It's amazing what modern medicine can do.
So, praise to God for the miracle that has happened, and thank you to all of you for your prayers.
He may come home from the hospital today!!!
If you don't remember, my nephew Adam was born two years ago with a faulty tricuspid valve. He had emergency open-heart surgery days after he was born, and another when he was about 6 months. The doctors plan to make his heart operate on just one half of the organ. He had his final surgery last Friday (7/11/03) to put in a Fontaine Shunt. That surgery completed the task, and he is now operating on 1/2 of his heart.
This miracle is amazing. They expected the surgery to last 5 hours, it lasted 3. My sister called me Friday evening, and was so excited. She said, for the first time in his life, his fingernails and nose were pink, not blue. He was not puffy and his cheeks were not bright red. He was eating by Saturday night.
Yesterday they removed the rest of the tubes from his heart, and they took him for a walk around the hospital. He went up to a playroom and played for hours. My BIL told me he woke up at 4:30 yesterday morning, and was still going strong at 5 in the afternoon, no nap. This is a two year old. He has so much energy, he just doesn't know how to handle it. Before this surgery he could play for 1/2 an hour and then he sat down and rested for an hour or so. Now he just isn't tired.
It's amazing what modern medicine can do.
So, praise to God for the miracle that has happened, and thank you to all of you for your prayers.
He may come home from the hospital today!!!
.My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.
Thanks for the update!
