Taylor is Out of Surgery - June 26, 2009

Taylor came out of the surgery which began around 9 at about 2:30 today. We met with Dr. Shen, her surgeon, in the PICU family room at about 3 PM. He shared with us that the surgery went well and all that he had planned to do was accomplished. As he shared with us yesterday, her lung resistance is still a bit higher than he would like to see but he noted improvement throughout the surgery. It is critical for the lung resistance to be low so that the heart does not need to pump against the lungs. The goal is for the blood to flow passively through the lungs. He advised us that the doctors will be watching her pressures and Oxygen sats carefully and if needed give her medication to "relax" the lungs a bit. He also shared that the hope is to get her off the ventilator as soon as she seems ready because it "pushes" air into the lungs and it is much better for her to be breathing on her own. Right now he told us we will wait and see how she responds and just go from there.

All in all it has been a long, exhausting day. We have had the support of our pastors Barbara and Tom here today as well as Lindy and Genevive Nevin who have been care providers for Taylor, Cameron and Emileigh. Thank you for the emails and posts on Facebook sharing support and prayers. We have been really touched by your notes to us and are boosted knowing that Taylor is own your hearts as well.

We ask that you continue to pray for strength for Taylor as she recovers and that her body does what the doctor's hope for it to do - heal itself and adjust to the new blood routing through her heart into her lungs to her body.

Jason and I plan to stay here at Fairfax till Taylor is settled, talk to the doctors and then be home for the night. Cameron is swimming freestyle and backstroke tomorrow morning in the Franklin Glen swim meet and we want to be sure to be with him to show our encouragement.

We will continue to post information as we have it. We know that you understand that we probably wil not spend a lot of time on the phone over the next few days. Feel free to email us at goodloe@evolvetech.com or on Facebook.

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Love,
The Goodloes