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…

Amanda is doing much better this morning. She’s still in pain but it seems to be under control. We saw all the doctors early this morning. They’ve already processed her discharge. Hopefully we’ll be out of here my noon. Amanda is still wanting to come home today. The third day is usually the worst for soreness…

Schedule moved up They called this morning and asked us to get to the hospital as soon as we could. The schedule change and the procedure has been moved up. We came in they got her registered right away and she’s already in pre-op. She’ll be taken back soon. Just took her back Well so…

We made it to Houston this evening. We’re all checked in the hotel had dinner a just chilling out now. The surgery is at 3 tomorrow afternoon but we have to be at the hospital just after lunch. We’re staying in our usual hotel, just a block away from the hospital, but not the same type…

Amanda has been doing good, she’s getting better and better. She’s been up moving and doing more on her own. Well it took a while and a lot of calls but we were finally able to get the pacemaker interrogated. We didn’t have to go to San Antonio but we’re able to have it done in…

Amanda’s getting better and better everyday. She waking and getting up and around more and more each day. Her shoulder has been hurting her lately to the point where it’s more painful than her surgical site. It hasn’t been as bad today though.  We never did get ahold of the Medtronic rep. I called the…

No big news today Amanda’s doing good still in pain though. Yesterday we tried cutting one of the pain meds down to 1 pill instead of 2 but that just didn’t end up working. I ended up giving her 1 and a half for today. She seems to do better on that for now.Our primary…

Amanda is doing much better today. She’s still weak though, still needing help up and down. Today I had to wean her, she needs to be doing a little more so she can build her strength back up. That hasn’t made me very popular today! The last few times she got in and out of…

Just before our food came I changed the bandage on Amanda’s chest tube incision. It was pretty painful for her the tape was stuck to her skin. She is allergic to most adhesives, it tends to leave small blister on her skin. This is that much worse when one bandage comes off and right back…