to everyone for praying for Zechariah.
Here is a quick update about Zechariah's progress. I will continue to add more detailed information as time allows.
Here is how things progressed throughout the day of the surgery . Periodically a nurse present at his surgery gave us updates of Zechariah's progress. Here is what she told us.
- We gave Zechariah over to the doctors for surgery at 8:15 am
- The doctors looked to see if repairing his aortic valve would be an option other than doing the Ross procedure.
- The valve repair would not be possible. So, the Ross procedure would be done.
- Around 12:00 pm the nurse returned to tell us that he was doing well. Thank God for nurses.
- As part of the procedure his coronary arteries would be disconnected then reattached. Around 2:45 pm the nurse told us one of his arteries needs some attention. So the doctors spent more time to repair him.
- We finally we able to see him around 6:30 pm after 10 hrs. surgery. But, all things considering went extremely well. PRAISE GOD!
He went into the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit [PICU] directly after surgery for monitoring. The nurse in the PICU are rated #5 in the nation for care with heart patients. All of the nurses have beeen very helpful, keeping us informed about what is happening with him. He is recovering good, but please continue to pray.
PRAY FOCUS
- There is still a risk for fever to set in. Pray that his temp. will be stable throughout his stay in the PICU.
- While in surgery he was on the heart & lung machine which runs a risk of stroke for all heart surgery patients. He is not out of the woods yet for risk of stroke. Please pray there will be no sogns of stroke. period!
Thank again for praying! We can not stress that enough. We know he has gotten this far because of your prayers. Continue to pray! One day at a time is what we focus on and one day at a time is what we do.
Until next time....
God Bless
The Kindbergs
1 comments:
Dearest: These are wonderful and specific answers to prayer. 'To God be the glory, great things He hath done....so love He the world that He gave us His Son'.
"Rom 8:32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? "
I've had a special burden to pray for the nurses...both that they would be exceptionally helpful, but also exceptionally careful in their processes and procedures in Zach's care. It's wonderful to hear that they have blessed you particularly, and the great need now is protection from infection. We'll continue to pray in this vein.
Also, I can't say it better than Paul: "Rom 1:8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because your faith is being proclaimed throughout the whole world." God is doing a great thing through all of this. We will all rejoice when He considers it time to reveal all His counsel.
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