Aug
22
2011
Monday August 22, 2:45 PM
The Fontan is over! They have moved her from the Operating Room to the PICU and we have been asked to wait about an hour before we go in to see her. Dr. Iguidbashian came in and briefed us on the surgery. He said that he used a 14cm graft and a small gortex pop-off. If she is not too sleepy tonight they will remove the respirator and hopefully by tomorrow she will be walking around. He did mention that the plural catheters will be the issue to watch as they rarely take less than 10 days to clear and sometimes a month. We can go home with them but he said they want the drainage to be 10ml day. I know we are probably getting ahead of ourselves but it's fun to think in a few days we will be home and getting things back to our version of normal.