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This is Melissa, Jon’s sister, and I will be updating his blog while he’s in the hospital. Not much news as of yet, He was taken into surgery about 8:30am. The surgeon spoke with the family beforehand and said he will send someone out to do updates 4 times throughout the surgery. I’ll update this […]
We met with the heart surgeon on Tuesday afternoon for the first time. When we’d gone previously (a couple months ago), we met with a nurse since he had been called into emergency surgery. We couldn’t really complain about that excuse!
Anyway, he went over the options and discussed outcomes with us. There are two good […]
On Monday, September 25, I’ll be having open-heart bypass surgery at Phoenix Children’s Hospital to correct a congenital defect called a thoracic aortic aneurysm as well as a bicuspid aortic valve. The aneurysm is a fancy name for saying that the wall of the aorta is weakened and would eventually burst if it gets large […]