Two weeks to the day that Lily was down at the Cleveland Clinic for her pre-admission lab work, she was back in the OR for a second repair on her heart. We know that the surgeon was not really pleased with the initial repair and Lily's deteriorating condition made a second surgery a necessity. The risks of this surgery were the same as the first with the risk of mortality even higher. The surgeon explained that he would entirely reconstruct the walls of her heart with a different strategy he devised with his collegues. We were both very worried to say the least. Lily was the only surgery on the schedule for the day and many of the doctors and nurses involved with her original surgery even came in on their days off to make sure things went smoothly.
We received many updates during the day but in the end, the surgeon was very pleased with the newly constructed repair. He definitely seemed much more upbeat about it this time around than the first. Lily is back in the PICU with all the same tubes and wires that she had the first time around. They discovered an infection in her trachea caused by the respirator and put her on antibiotics. She is doing well at the moment and we are all hoping that she will continue along this path until she can have the breathing tube removed again.
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