Gracie did great through surgery and the surgeon was pleased. He was able to repair the valve the best he could and hopefully buy her a lot of time until she needs it replaced. He closed the opening between the two top chambers of the heart. He also removed the membrane above the mitral valve which helped with the pressure.
He had to separate the vessels that go from the valve to the bottom of the heart. They knew they were narrow but not sure they were attached. He said that he traded a little leakage for quite a bit of pressure relief. The doctor also looked at the aortic valve and said it looked normal and that he only looked at the aortic arch through an echo cardiogram that was put down Gracie's heart through a probe. He was not concerned about it right now. The doctor said that Gracie was stable during the whole surgery and the only thing is her blood pressure is a little high but he said that it was better than being low.
He said her lungs looked like premature lungs, but I think he said it would not effect her heart too much. The next couple of days are still going to be critical with all the tubes that Gracie will have and I know it will be hard to see her but am so glad that she did well during surgery.
Todd and I have already seen Gracie and she looked better than we expected. I was expecting her to look her absolute worst, but she looked really good just a little swollen. Todd was bothered by her eyes. She never really closes them all the way but today they were pretty much wide open so he asked the nurse if he could close them.
A HUGE thanks to everyone for the prayers and thoughts of our family during this time. Please continue to keep us in your prayers. We definitely know that God was in the operating room with the doctors.
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