Donnie came and took us to lunch. My aunt bought Gary and I a gift certificate to a place that we saw on the phantom gourmet. The Squealing Pig.
During our lunch they called and updated us when they put him on ECMO and when they took him off. (ECMO, which stands for Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation, is an advanced technology that functions as a replacement for a critically ill child's heart and lungs. It’s used to support a child who is awaiting surgery, or to give a child's vital organs time to recover from heart surgery or disease.). They asked us to come back because the surgeon will talk to us when he is finished. We hurried back to Children's.
Dr Emani came and got us, he told us that everything went good, and escorted us into a private room. He told us that he cut Tucker's two stints and performed the Glenn and when they were in there they noticed that the flow from the atrial septum was pretty minimal, so they had to stop the heart to go inside and increase the bloodflow. This was an unexpected step but felt that it was necessary to repair it while he was already in there. We are waiting in the cardiac ICU now, they are performing a few tests, EKG, ECHO, and am x-ray then he will come to the floor and we can see him.
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