Matt and Abbie's little girl Ellie is having heart surgery today around 1:00 Denver time. This is hopefully the final issue to take care of so she is able to grow healthy and strong! Matt and Ab seem to be doing well with everything that has been thrown at them over the last week. Here's a bit from her email late last night...
ellie will be going to the OR for surgery to repair the coarctation of the aorta tomorrow around 1pm. as far as pediatric heart surgery goes, it is a relatively straight-forward, low-risk procedure. her heart itself looks perfect, a huge benefit for ellie that is fairly unusual in infants with coarctations (only about 20% have normal hearts). we expect she'll be in the OR for a couple of hours. recovery is probably a week and at the moment it looks like the other things that have been issues for her are basically gone.
she'll have a great team taking care of her tomorrow. they are pretty optimistic about both her surgery and that before we know it ellie will be a perfectly healthy 2-year old running around the backyard chasing after kate, luke, and dan. as an aside, just last fall, matt and team recruited the doctors that will operate on ellie and if they weren't here, she'd have to be transferred to another hospital for her surgery. we think it is awesome that God put just there right people in just the right place at just the right time to take care of his daughter ellie.
Please pray again today for Ellie, Matt, Ab and the kids and the doctors and nurses that will be working on her. With Him all things are possible!
PS- Happy one week birthday Miss Ellie!!!!!!!!!
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LOVE to Miss Ellie!
Praying for your family! Stay strong little baby Ellie!
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