2 heart patients need prayers

[catwoman]

My sister Nancy called to say that a neighbor of hers, also named Nancy, is supposed to be having an echo today. Extremely fatigued, coughing a lot, has some edema, has a murmur. Is on BP meds.
I told her it sounds like her neighbor could be having some CHF.

She said the neighbor's future daughter-in-law is needing a heart transplant. Future DIL is 23, lives in New York, is flying to Texas this weekend to do some wedding planning. However, she apparently has a pacemaker or similar device & is going to go to Houston (Texas Heart Institute maybe???) for surgery Monday. Odds are not terribly good, my sister was told. Procedure involves changing out wires (that's why I thought pacemaker); she's on 4, my sister said, and 5 is supposedly the highest the device can be turned to. It's not doing her enough good. She can't get OK from her doctor to fly if it's higher than a 4.

Nancy asked me to pray for her friend & the friend's future DIL. Told her I would post a prayer plea for both of these women. The neighbor lives in Tyler TX but also has a home down the road from my sister's home at Lake Bob Sandlin in East Texas. She is a school nurse.

 

[geebee]

Prayers starting now.

 

[Ross]

Included in mine also.

 

[Harrybaby666]

Mine are going up as well!!!

Mine are going up as well!!!

Gosh, it seems like heart issues are popping up everywhere and more frequently. Both your neighbor and your neighbor's daughter in law have my prayers too!!! Harrybaby

 

[Nancy]

From yet another Nancy, they will be in my prayers.

 

[catwoman]

Update

Update

My sister's friends future daughter-in-law had her surgery 10/9 at St. Luke's in Houston. What was supposed to be a simple procedure (from the sounds of it) turned into an all-day affair to replace 2 leads to the pacemaker.
(This is from my sister, who got info from her friends & their son, who were at the hospital.)
The procedure started @ 12:30 p.m.; the lower lead had a lot of tissue overgrowth. She started hemorrhaging, so doctors had to open her chest. She needed 3-4 units of blood.
They wrapped it up @ 8:40 p.m.

This is a young woman who has been told she eventually will need a heart transplant.

 

[twinmaker]

Marsha, I'll keep your sister's neighbor and her future DIL in my prayers. I had to have my pacemaker wires removed when they changed my pacemaker to a defibrillator. I had only had my pacer for a couple of years and my electrophysiologist said that getting the wires out is the most dangerous part. Even in a short period of time, the tissue grows over and around the wires. Of course, when they insert them, they want them to stay put. Anyway, he talked to me about this part of the procedure more than anything else. He was able to remove mine. Thank goodness he does ALOT of these, but he also told me that sometimes they just have to leave the old wires in there and insert the new ones. I'm thankful he got my old wires out...I don't need any more metal in my chest with my St. Jude valve, my defibrillator and my wires around my sternum! LINDA

 

[catwoman]

Linda:

Your post was very reassuring! I'll pass it on to my sister to relay it to her friend.

I got a progress report about 1 hour ago. Patient is still on ventilator. My sister said she's at the Texas Children's Hospital as an ACHD patient, not at St. Luke's.