This morning brings about more anxiety. The surgeons came in and checked him this morning. They said he still had fluid in his chest cavity, which they thought his body would've eliminated yesterday through pee.
During his surgery, since he didn't have much tissue between his valves to sew the patch to, they were concerned that the patch may cause some obstruction. Immediately after his surgery, before even talking to us, they did an echocardiogram and it showed there was no obstruction. That seemed to be their biggest worry about this, so that was a huge sigh of relief.
Well this morning, the surgeon said that perhaps that is why he was having so much difficulty yesterday when he was awake and off the breathing tube. She said perhaps there was enough blood flow when he was still under (when they tested him immediately after surgery), but there is some obstruction when he is awake and breathing on his own.
So they are going to do another echocardiogram this morning while he is awake. I did not even ask the big question, what if there is an obstruction. I guess I want to bury my head in the sand for now and hope that there is no obstruction. I'm so out of my mind with worry.
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