15 December 2009

Quick update!

Thank you all for all of the prayers for my sister, Mary. Please keep them coming.

Mary did very well with the surgery yesterday. They did the bypass and replace her valve. The surgery was about 5 1/2 hours. I was able to see her once she was settled. She was still on the ventilator at the time. While in there, the turned it off and she began breathing on her own-huge sigh of relief! By night time, the tube was out, and she was awake and talking. She has quite a bit of pain, which is expected, but they were working on managing that. The only thing still up in the air is whether or not she will need a pacemaker (5% of valve replacement patients do). We should have an answer to this in the next day or so.

THANK YOU for all of the prayers, and please keep them coming. She has a long way to go, but so far, so good! GOD IS GREAT!

8 comments:

Sarah - Kala said...

Praise God!
Continuing to keep you all in prayer.

Jamie Jo said...

So glad you updated us...I'll keep those prayers up!

Karen McQuestion said...

I'm so relieved to hear this news. Thanks for the update. I'll continue to keep your sister and her family in my prayers.

Mary N. said...

That's good news to hear. She is in my prayers.

Frizzy said...

I'm so thankful to hear your sister is on the mend and the doctors were able to help. I'll keep her in my prayers. Please continue to keep us posted.

Anonymous said...

Hi Therese,
Praise God - I'm still praying for your sister and her recuperation. :)
Have a great week,
Blessings,
Jillian

Dawn said...

That's good news!

Therese said...

what wonderful news. Continued prayers.