8 hours of surgery and …

My goodness I’m nervous. It’s going to take 6-8 hours! Poor baby can’t eat before surgery and she’s hungry. I feel for her poor belly. She’s been through so many tests, poked, prodded, x rays, ultrasounds etc. She’s first case as she’ll have a long day. Waiting on the 2nd floor outside the elevators for updates on the surgery has been challenging to say the least. Cafeteria food is OK, Miracle cafe is OK too. Not sure about any food or anything. Hospital is friendly and very thorough about your identification. We have no choice in that Galina has to have this surgery. We have to have faith that everything is going to be fine. The halfway mark comes and we hear everything is fine. Thank God. The arteries were a perfect diameter and the switch has gone well. Now they close her chest up. The heart is an electrical system, organ and muscle that in an 8 day old baby is pretty small. Unfortunately, the cardiac surgeon touches Galina’s heart when it’s having an electrical conduction and little “babycakes” goes into heart block. Heart block means she going to be on an external pacemaker that will pace her heart and we hope she comes out of it. Why didn’t I ask for prayers from my members?