Wednesday and Waiting

It feels a little like that movie Groundhog's Day around here, the date on the calendar is different, but the days all seem the same. We continue to wait for her heart block to go away. Every day seems harder and harder to have faith that her regular rhythm will come back.  An EP (pacemaker specialist) came in today to go over what life with a pacemaker looks like. Right now surgery is scheduled for Monday afternoon. It will be a 2 hour surgery with a 5 day recovery. They would open her chest cavity back up to insert the pacer wires directly to the heart and there would be a small incision under the rib cage where the pacemaker itself would go. It is different from adults because her veins are too little to send a pacer wire through. The battery life would last around 5-10 years (give or take) before they would have to do a procedure to replace the battery. It is an outpatient procedure. She also cannot do contact sports- so our dream of our daughter playing football is out the window. We also have to have extra check ups once a year. We would more than likely need to come back to Ann Arbor to do replacement surgeries while she is still a kid as they do not have a pediatric heart surgeon in Sioux Falls. Please continue to pray that her heart block goes away and she won't need a pacemaker.