Susannah had her heart cath on Tuesday. Everything went perfectly. She did a great job handling it all. We had to be at the hospital at 8:30 for registration. She did really well with all the people coming and going. She doesn't like strangers, especially when they touch her, but she tolerates them and lets them do what they need to. The procedure was scheduled for 10am. Around 10:15, the anesthesiologist came in and had her drink some medicine (Versed) to make her sleepy. About 5-10 minutes after, she was drowsy enough, they had us walk her down the hallway, tell her goodbye, and hand her over to the assistants. At 11:45am they came out and said everything was done! The Dr. came and talked to us around 12:15ish. They brought us back to her around 1ish. They had already taken out the breathing tube and were getting her situated in her room. She had wiggled a little bit, but hadn't opened her eyes, yet, but when the blood pressure machine went off, her little eyes popped open and she was wide awake!! She had to stay flat for 4 hours. She had a hard time being still at first because she had an oxygen sensor on her big toe! I wasn't sure they would take it off for us or not, seeing as how they had to make sure she had proper blood flow to her feet, but they did since she had one on her finger, too. Susannah was MUCH happier after that and laid on her back in the bed and played with toys that we held over her for about an hour and half. After that I held her and she went to sleep and took a nap until about 4pm when they woke her up for us to go home!! They also did an ECHO on her while we were there. The Dr. that did the cath didn't think the pressures in the ventricles were quite high enough to do the Double Switch. He's not sure what exactly the surgeons will want to do. They conference with our cardiologist next Thursday, and hopefully will come up with a plan of what they think would be the best option.
Extra info so I remember: They went in both legs On one side they put in a pacer wire of some sort that was hooked up to a pacemaker, since she's in heart block, in case her heart rate dropped too low from the anesthesia. The other leg, they did the actual cath stuff.
