Last thursday, Kim and I took Lily in for a scheduled visit to her cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic. Her weight was at 4.945 kg with a goal of 5 kg for surgery. The doctor said he was still planning on a mid-November surgery date. We also met with one of the surgical nurses who said she would call us back with available dates for scheduling the surgery but she know that November was filling up fast. The next day we found out that the only available date was election day, November 4 so we took it.
We will be taking Lily down to the clinic for her barrage of pre-surgical tests and then she will be checked in for her open-heart surgery on Tuesday. We are both anxious to get this over with as well as nervous. Even with all the reassuring on how good they think she will do and the fact that she will be at probably the best facility in the world for heart surgery, we are both understandably nervous. Lily's surgeon will even be the current head of the department who took over for the famous Dr. Mee who helped make the Cleveland Clinic the best heart hospital in the world.
In fact, there has been a book written about the pediatric surgical unit at the clinic entitled Walk on Water: Inside an Elite Pediatric Surgical Unit.
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