A Successful Surgery

I wanted to let everyone know that my mother's surgery was a success! Yeah!!! She checked into the hospital around 5 am Wednesday morning and they began the surgery around 7:30am. Everything went great. The Doctor wasn't able to preform the ROSS procedure, so she received a pig valve instead. It isn't that big of a deal because it doesn't really change any of the outcome of the surgery. Around 12:30pm she was wheeled back into her room for recovery and wasn't allowed any visitors for about 2 hours. They wanted to monitor her and get her all comfortable for her stay. She pretty much slept the entire rest of the day and night with a few awakings to ask for ice and to say hello to family. They wanted her to sleep as much as possible because the next day she was going to need all her strength. She is such a trooper.