Lyra's surgery began around 9am on Wednesday morning and wasn't completed until nearly 6pm. Following the procedure, her heart function was good, but she experienced a lot of bleeding, the extent of which, I don't think anyone wanted to tell us. The upshot was that she was fairly unstable for the following 24 hours, requiring a lot of blood and plasma to maintain her blood pressure.
The second day she became much more stable and required less intervention to maintain her pressure. Soon, her heart rate started coming down and her pressure was more stable and everyone started to relax a bit. I don't mind saying that for a while there, things were not looking very good, but Lyra continues to amaze us though, as she always does.
Today, she's starting to get a lot of the excess fluid out as the diuretics start to work, hopefully she'll begin to look a little more like herself in the next day or two. Right now, she's really swollen and puffy from about her chest, up.
Posted by Tim at October 23, 2004 10:57 PM