The team of doctors, including the surgeon, have agreed that another bronchoscope needs to be done to determine the status of the infection/fungus. Also, the surgeon wants to have a heart-cath done so that he can see the total picture of what is going on. He has said that she is not responding to what they are seeing when they do an Echocardiagram. According the echo, she should not be having all of these problems. He is also concerned about how much the leaking of the aortic valve is playing a part with the problems in the left-side of her heart. That is why the echo will be useful.
Also, there seems to be a problem with the pacer-lead, connected to the outside of her heart, that he (surgeon) and the pacemaker doctor from Jacksonville, will need to look into. However, the surgeon wants to have all of the information from the bronchoscope and the results of the heart-cath before he and the pacemaker doctors look into the pacer lead issue.
The heart-cath procedure might not take place until the end of the week or even the first part of next week.
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We are thinking about all of you and praying you too! We are heading through Gainesville either Wednesday night or Thursday morning if you would like us to bring anything or anyone to you. We'll be coming back through on Monday morning if you need us to stop and bring anything or anyone back. Take care and we'll keep praying for a full recovery!
Love Chris, Dave and Jake
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