My blog title last night was oh so wrong... Dr. Brown had an emergency with another patient this morning. We have been around Riley enough to know that emergencies take priority, and plans change. It's hard when we have waited so long already and when Jacob is our top priority, but we know we are part of a system. We know that if Jacob were in an emergency, we would want others to wait patiently.
Hopefully Jacob will go back to surgery soon. We anticipate a 3-4 hour surgery, but don't hold us to that!
We all did okay waiting for a while. Then we were all hungry. Tom and I got to step out to get some breakfast. Jacob was just hungry and thirsty but didn't complain. That's not his style.
We had a little craziness about what procedure Dr. Brown thinks is the best as far as how to get to Jacob's heart. It is going to be different than we thought. From looking at the X-rays, Dr. Brown plans to get the pacemaker leads where they need to be without doing a full cut in his chest like in an open heart surgery. Instead he is going to go in from Jacob's back. So please pray for that procedure. It takes about an hour to get everything ready for Dr. Brown to come in and do his part.
Also please join us in praying that no chest tube is needed. That was very painful for Jacob the last time. We want what is best for healing, but for pain levels over the next few days, no chest tube would be wonderful!
The change in plan on procedure was a bit unnerving. Just the unknown after we had all sorta gotten used to the idea of his chest being cracked open. The back requires more work done to the muscles but doesn't require bone to heal. We were psyched up and then had to regroup. We have done that before. Flexibility is important! Our priority for Jacob is healing... not for things to go exactly as we thought they were gonna go.
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