Well that didn’t go as planned! The cath revealed a blockage in Amanda’s right coronary artery. This is the artery that supply’s the heart itself with blood, it was occluded 95%. All were shocked including the doctors this was totally unexpected. A blockage of this kind doesn’t normally happen in someone of Amanda’s age much…

Never be in a hurry at a hospital! We were told to be at the hospital at 7am for a 9:15 procedure. Amanda was initially taken back quickly for vitals and lab work, I wasn’t able to go back about 45 minutes later. I met our cardiologist this morning as he was coming out of…

Well I’m posting to this site much sooner than we had anticipated. I love how I can keep you all up to date throughout Amanda’s surgeries and recovery but I loath having a need to log in to this site at all.  Amanda’s health improved after my last post here following her last valve surgery…

We got home around 5 or so, Amanda is feeling ok but not great. Her back has been hurting since before we left so that wasn’t great for all the bumps. The pain is in the area of her kidneys, I’m sure they had tons of junk filtered through them during the surgery. We would…

Amanda’s feeling better this morning so we’re headed home in a bit. She was doing better yesterday but started hurting again last night. She seemed to to sleep alright last night, hopefully she’ll be able to nap on the ride home also. I figure we should be home between 4 and 5, I’m praying traffic…

Amanda is feeling a little better but not much. We’re going to stay another day just to be safe. Looking better than last night, not sure she feels it though. She took a shower earlier to get all of the hospital off. Which I’m sure made her feel better but was quickly canceled out and…

Well Amanda had a good night and still isn’t in much pain. When I got here she had already been up and walked a bit. Her back is still sore but better and she didn’t mention her neck hurting to bad. She said she got a little sleep but is still sleepy, sleep is never…

At the hospital Well we didn’t get much sleep but we’re here! Dinner was great last night by the way, it was a neat little place in midtown. It’s restaurant week so they had a few selections from a tasting menu.  They took Amanda back to the pre-op room quickly, I’ll join her in a…

So today we had pre-op with a doctor and with the hospital. The doctor was what they call the second surgeon. For what Amanda’s is having done they require 2 surgeons to sign off on the surgery. The main doctor doing the procedure is an interventional cardiologist, a doctor that performs catheter based procedures (ie…

I started this page a little less than a year ago as we entered our 10th year on this journey with Amanda’s heart issues. I was hoping and praying that I wouldn’t need to post more updates for a while but that doesn’t seem to be the plan. As we now enter into our 11th…