Hello all! We hope this finds everyone doing well.
Yesterday evening the nurse came in while I was hanging out with Maizy and told me that tentatively they had the surgery scheduled for Thursday. Since they had told us the surgery wouldn't be till next week I assumed she was talking about next Thursday....I was incorrect she was talking about this Thursday. Traci and I are thrilled/terrified to get this next step started, and more thrilled to get it complete, and get Maizy on the road to recovery.
They told us the surgeon wanted to meet with us likely on Wednesday, so I headed to work and started the day, then I recieved a call a bit after 1 pm from Traci telling me that the surgeon wanted to meet with us today (tuesday) at 3! So I bolted from work and made it back in time to meet with the surgeon. Our surgeon explained what was going on, and told us he would see us soon. He did a good job of describing stuff and I was very comfortable with him. They will be doing open heart surgery, and replacing the bad section of valve with donor tissue. So a big thank you to whoever donated their heart so our little girl could have her heart fixed.
Mom and Dad are trying to wrap our heads around the fact we have made it to this point and we are preparing to deal with recovery as the nurses told us to be prepared because she will have lots of sensors, tubes, and pumps going. However I sense you can never fully be prepared for such a thing.
Its crazy to think that today Traci would have been 38 weeks, and we could be still waiting for Maizy to be born, instead we have a beautiful baby girl and we are getting ready for surgery.
Piper is doing good and being the champ the Piper always is (she gets it from her mom, her dad is usually a basketcase, I need 3 meals a day, 2 snacks and a place to potty or I freak out) she got to spend the day with Robin Stein, who is quickly becoming Aunt Robin. Robin and the entire Stein family have been awesome, taking Piper the day Maizy was born as well. They do an awesome job of entertaining and wearing out Piper...and keeping her will stocked with suckers. The Steins along with everyone else, to numerous to mention, have been fantastic in offering assistance, care and love duing our journey here. We will never to be able to fully thank all of you for everything...just know we love and appreciate you all.
Before I sign off I wanted to tell Traci how much I love her and how proud I am that she is the mother of our two beautiful little girls. She is by far the rock in our family, the glue that keeps our crazy team together. I was once told by a friend after meeting Traci that I had by far "out punted my coverage" he couldn't be more correct. I am not sure what I did in life to deserve the three wonderful ladies I have been blessed with, but I am one lucky guy.
To finish off this post I got to snuggle with Maizy tonight for a while and was reading her a book (Eat, Sleep, Ride...its a book about the Great Divide bike race...trust me she loves it...) and as she snuggled into my arm I told her that Thursday would be a tough day but she was tough like her mommy and sister and she would be home in no time. It reminded me of what I told her when we got her up to the NICU, when it was just her and I (before mommy's glorious expedition 2 hrs after child birth to see her) I was in awe of everything going on, and the only thing I could get out of mouth at that time was "I love you so much little girl, do your daddy a favor....and fight like hell."
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