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| "Chief for the Medical Staff", by Christian artist Nathan Greene |
Our sweet little 9 week old Dahlia has been officially put on the heart transplant list. Tomorrow morning, she will spend 6 to 8 hours in the operating room, where the most skilled surgeons in this country will implant a left ventricular assist device (not an artificial heart) called a "Berlin Heart". This device will assist her heart in pumping the blood. It will allow her to get off the ventilator and live as a more normal infant on the pediatric heart floor, instead of being all hooked up in ICU, while awaiting a heart transplant. We are
so blessed to be at Texas Children's -- only one of 17 hospitals in the nation participating in the study of this device, which is only 2 weeks away from being approved by the FDA. Texas Children's Hospital is the only hospital in Texas offering the Berlin Heart and the first in the southwest to do so. The surgeons operating on Dahlia tomorrow are the head doctors who are over the trial program and who teach other doctors about it. We approach tomorrow with peace in our hearts knowing she is getting the best of care and is in His Hands. We are sustained and comforted by our faith in, and knowledge, of a Heavenly Father and his son Jesus Christ who love each of us more than we can even imagine, and by all of your prayers.
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| unbreakable bond between mother and child |
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2 comments:
We know she is in the BEST HANDS ever! Thanks for sharing your sweet post and the lovely picture. I love the pictures of Dahlia and Emily. Also I 'm so happy about your Mission call to New York!!!!You will be close to your old stomping grounds. It will be a blessing for our families!!!!
i hope everything went well with the surgery. we've been praying for her! what a great picture of emily and dahlia. so very sweet.
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