Bless Ivy's Heart: 3 days to go

Saturday, July 7, 2012

3 days to go

Hello everyone! After 1 full week of no internet at wonderful Bear Lake with Scott's awesome family, we are now at Grandma Marde's with some wifi! Yay! There are too many blog posts in my dashboard and not enough time, so I apologize for not reading if you have posted in the last 7 days. Also, if you are looking forward to my Bear Lake post (which I'm sure you are!) you'll have to wait til I get around to it. Its a busy time for us right now.

Anyway, I actually have a reason for posting today. Ivy is having open-heart surgery on Wednesday. We are having a family and friend fast tomorrow. If you are willing and able to fast for our sweet little girl and her surgeons this week we would really appreciate it. If you aren't into that sort of thing, regular prayers, crossed fingers, and happy thoughts are welcome.

Oh man, I love that face!

We have a busy week ahead full of x-rays, meeting doctors, getting blood work done, and of course surgery and recovery. I do not call individual people to update on Ivy's status...its way too hard (plus, no cell service in the hospital, but there is free wifi!), but if you want to keep up with everything that goes on, please check the blog (I don't have facebook), I will update regularly.

Please keep little Ivy in your thoughts and prayers this week. Thanks in advance!

1 comment:

JennyJuly 9, 2012 at 6:39 AM
Keeping you all in our thoughts and prayers!
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About Ivy

Ivy was born in November 2008 with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS), and Heterotaxy. HLHS is a congenital heart defect that affects the left side of her heart. Without treatment this condition is fatal. There is a series of surgeries to alter the anatomy of her heart to make it functional to where she can lead a relatively normal life. Heterotaxy is a condition which effects other organs in her body. Her intestines were twisted, her liver is on the wrong side, and she doesn't have a spleen.

In order to save her life, Ivy had her first open-heart surgery when she was 6 days old (the Norwood Procedure), and a second emergency surgery when she was 13 days old. When she was 5 weeks old she also had a surgery on her intestines to keep them in place. She was finally released from the hospital after exactly 7 weeks.

In October of 2009 she had the second stage of open-heart surgery (the Glenn Procedure), and recovered with flying colors.

Today Ivy is a thriving two year old who brightens up our lives. She's one tough cookie, and will never go down without a fight. She's looking forward to another year without surgery, until she has her final one, anticipated to take place summer 2012.