Today was the day we were dreading. Today was the day we were supposed to set the date of surgery. It's not a specific date yet, but it will be when the surgery team gets together to set the date, then they call us. We requested a Dr. Christian. She is supposed to be an excellent surgeon. About a month ago, I heard of a person whose little boy had the same surgery our Kenzie is supposed to have. He was in the insurance business and I need to know what to do on August 31st when our Cobra Insurance runs out. That's another blog. Anyway, it seemed like a gift from God that I was looking for a person to help me with insurance and someone who had the same surgery as our little girl is going to have. Another weird little note: I didn't know the guys name, I just knew he worked for State Farm and he was in Spring Hill. So I hopped on the Internet and I was prepared to call every insurance agent in Spring Hill to find him. I called the very first one that popped up on Google, and it was him. You make your own judgment here. We set a date to talk about the surgery. We talked about an hour. He told us who their surgeon was (Dr. Christian) and how it all went down. Now during our conversation I found out he was from Martin, TN, where I went to college and played baseball, and he was best friends with an old roomie of mine Paul Slack. So I figured with all the signs pointing to this guy, I want the same surgeon his baby had. I mean, I know that was one successful surgery under her belt.
We had an echocardiogram today. It shows little pictures of the heart and blood flowing through the heart. She was such a trooper. She just laid back and enjoyed the little massage. After the echo we weighed her and they took oxygen levels. She weighs twelve lbs, and her oxygen is 91%. Fabulous. Now we go to talk to Dr. Ammons (her cardiologist). He is a very nice guy who has a great bed side manner. We have a bunch of questions. One I had was, "Could you tell if the valve could be spared in the surgery?" This is big. If the valve is spared and the surgery goes well, it will be a one and done surgery. He is kinda vague, which I figured. If I heard him correctly he said, "On the echo the valve looks small, but by looking at her, she looks pink and her O2 levels being at 91 % isn't really telling the same tale". So he told us that if the valve has to be replaced then there will have to be a second surgery when she get older. This is where my brain gets to thinking, and I get upset. It is hard for me to think of my sweet little 8 year old being scared having to go through another surgery. So this is one thing I want people to ask for in their prayers. I am not sure how some parents do it. In that hospital there are kids that are going through bigger surgeries than we are. Parents going through much harder times than we are. In all that we endured today we have hope that Kenzie will be ok. I mean talking to the doctors, you would think this is like sewing up a finger. I mean they act like this is nothing. And truthfully, that is the way I want them to be. I want a surgeon who has done this a thousand times. I want an anesthesiologist that has been in these surgeries a thousand times with every one of them turning out perfect. At the end of the day my wife and I both are thankful that they have found this problem, have the ability to fix the problem, Kenzie will not remember this surgery, and that we have the means to get the care that baby Kenzie needs. So we ask for you to pray for a complete healing, steady hands and clear heads for the surgeons, for her valve to be spared and no other unforseen complications. Also, some people say they cannot leave comments on here so we are switching, We will continue to blog at www.kenziesbrokenheart.com.
