Hello everyone,
I get to be the official liaison between Jeff & Jennifer and all you loved ones out there! (I am Jeff's sister and a nurse which made today especially interesting)...
Today was a great day up at Emanuel... Abby is doing as well as can be expected; when I left they were just getting to the point of attempting to take her off of the ventilator. Her little body had SO many tubes and paraphernalia attached, WOW. A fifteen pound 7 month old with a chest tube, a pleural tube, an IV, a PICC line, EKG leads, an arterial line, a urinary catheter (didn't know they made them that small!), the ventilator tube taped to her face, electrodes into her heart as a backup pacemaker, BP cuff, oxygen saturation monitor... and I might even be forgetting a few things! Anyway, she is doing well and Jeff & Jen are extremely thankful. The doctor told us that the hole was bigger than they had thought (12 mm which is 1/2 inch!) and though her tricuspid valve was acting as a natural block for some of the hole (that's good), the valve itself was "taking a beating" (that's bad). So we were all very grateful that J&J had been led to schedule the surgery sooner than later.
The lead surgeon was the assistant surgeon for Jeff & Jennifer's nephew Isaac Bulgin who eventually died there at Emanuel in December 1999 at age 3 months. Abby's initial recovery nurse in the pediatric ICU was Mark & Tiffany's very favorite nurse for Isaac! I couldn't get over the unbelievable "chance" of God's timing in this. Needless to say, it was an emotional day for the Bulgins in more ways than one.
Jeff and Jennifer are comfortable and settled in well to the hospital and the Ronald McDonald house. The hospital team has done a wonderful job of preparing, assisting, and communicating with them.
We are all so grateful for your love and prayers,
Karen, for Jeff & Jennifer --- and the Bulgin & Roth families
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