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Thursday, December 17, 2009

He is out!

Isaac is out of his procedure and still stable. His cath doctor came to speak to us and told us basically what we already knew. He said that he could not get into the veins to open and stent them because they were too long, narrow and almost completely blocked. He said that pressures were taken and that everything is still well and his left lung is already doing all the work and taking in all the blood flow just fine. He did give us a breath of fresh air when he told us that there are kids with almost exactly the same thing and because that diseased lung is not giving them problems, then they just leave it alone. But, because Isaac is bleeding, they feel it is time to do something about it, but all of the team will have to talk about it tomorrow morning. The two options that were talked about was either plugging the right pulmonary artery or to go ahead and remove that whole right lung. I have been reading many articles on living with one lung and it is very possible. Just like we only need one kidney, we would only need one lung, but what scares us is the whole surgery and recovery thing. The option of plugging the pulmonary artery has not been studied extensively, but is still something that they want to consider. I would like it considered also if it means it could work and no surgery (for awhile at least). His cath doctor thinks it COULD work with minimal problems. The risks with this is of course infection in that unusable lung, more bleeding, etc.......but he still thinks it could be worth a try because its not really invasive.

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