This was posted to her Facebook:
"Bad news good news.
Bad news: There was a problem. They had to go back and restitch a valve. Her blood pressure dropped, and she stopped breathing. They had to do a heart cath, and she is back on the ventilator.
Good news: When they restitched the valve, she immediately started showing signs of improvement. She was still not awake when I left tonight, but they actually had to give her something to help her sleep. The anesthesia is starting to wear off (due to the fixed valve), and she is communicating. Her color had returned to her face and body, but there is still a lot of swelling in her legs and hands. This sets us back at square 1 (where we should have been right after the surgery), but we are very optimistic.
Please keep her in your thoughts."
I can explain a little better here:
They stopped her heart, and it "shrunk" due to no bloodflow. After the aneurysm, they started the Ross Procedure on her, and, when stitching in the new Pul. valve, they thought they had done an adequate job. When they started her heart again, there was a small fold, like when you try to stitch a patch on jeans how a little piece may just fold up a little. They did not see this as her heart was just starting to re-enlarge with the bloodflow. This is what has caused the delay in coming off of anesthesia, her lethargy, etc.
Her blood pressure bottomed out, and she stopped breathing... they essentially lost her for a moment. They put her back on the ventilator, but her O2 was still at 80%, even with the ventilator. They did a heart cath to find the problem, and found and fixed it.
Because of this, though, she has been setback to Day 1, like she is just coming into the recovery room. She is very sick, and they are 1:1ing her in the ICU. She is coming around, communicating as best as she can, and staying awake more, but it is still touch and go.
Now her blood pressure is still a little low, even for her... 80s/50s and sometimes 70s/40s. Her O2 stats have come back up to 100, but she is having a hard time coughing up the fluid in her lungs. Heart rate is in the low 100s, but her blood volume (from the SWANN reading) is staying at 1.6 to 1.8 with occasional spikes to 2.0 or 2.2. They want her to be at 2.0 or more for a continued amount of time before they take the SWANN out. It, too, has stayed low due to the stitching.
I will update more as it comes.
