Madylyne Aimee

Hey everyone, so it's 941pm and we just got back to our hotel in Stanford, Ca. We've spent the entire day in the family waiting room of the surgical center of the Lucille Packards Children's Hospital. For those of you reading this many of you know that Mady (Jeff's daughter) has a pace maker. What many of you may not know is that she had to have open heart surgery today for a valve transplant. Can't really call it a replacement since she didn't have a valve to begin with. After several hours in the OR the Dr's finally came out and said she did fine. The valve was sewn in and is a pig valve, Mady is convinced that this means she should never eat pork again, for fear of eating the brother...silly girl. The Dr is hopefully that it will be at least a year before she needs a new pace maker and at least 10 - 15 before she needs another valve transplant...and hopefully, God Willing she will never need a heart transplant.

We just returned, Jeff and I to the hotel (we have the early morning watch) and Cynthia (her mom) called to let us know that Mady is really struggling and the ventricle has low pressure, something that shouldn't be happening after the surgery. Hopefully it's just her body adjusting to the trama. I will let you know more tomorrow. Jeff and I return tomorrow morning at 7am to have our turn sitting by the bedside.

Those of you have that have prayed for us and Mady...THANK YOU!!! God is GOOD and is GOOD all the time! At times today I found myself struggling to pray but I know that all of you had her in your vigil. I will write more tomorrow (I promise Trish) to keep you posted.

Thanks and God Bless,
Heather