Thursday evening

Hey everyone-good news to report tonight. Hannah had her surgery this afternoon and things went better than we expected. They had told us it wasn't very likely that they would close her incision but the bleeding had stopped and so they felt pretty confident in closing her. The liver,  which was the source of the bleed,  was looking good-like it was healing. Anyway it was such good news because we had been planning on her having to go back in again on Saturday but now she can just get on with the business of getting better!
Although we are so happy about the surgery there was a set back with her kidneys. The doctors decided they better get her on dialysis today. So while they had her in surgery they put a line in her neck for the dialysis. They are pretty confident that her kidneys will rebound but hopefully this will give them a break from having to do all the work that kidneys do. Whatever that is. I feel like we know quite a bit about her heart issues but the kidneys are still a mystery to us. We'll have to get busy bringing ourselves up to speed. The number of people taking care of her seems to grow every day. We already had a team of ICU people, her cardiac team, and the surgical team. Now we add Team Kidney! It really gets crazy because everyone is looking to do the best thing for their area of expertise and lots of times their best ideas conflict with another team's ideas. So there is a lot of hashing it out on a daily basis but so far things have remained pretty civil. We know they all just want to do what's best for her and I appreciate their passion and diligence more than I can say.
Hannah is still really sedated for which I'm grateful. I'm sure starting tomorrow they will want get to wake her up more so she can begin to breathe without so much assistance from the ventilator. That is always such a painful thing to watch. And she won't be happy about the huge line that is now in her neck. Today a Dr. Asked what he could do for us and I said, "fast forward our lives to two weeks from now." Oh how I wish he could because I know the coming weeks will be so hard for her ! But I also know that she is one if the toughest humans I know and if anyone can do this it's her!
We sure love getting your messages and although we can't respond to them all please know how much we appreciate your love and prayers and kind words. When she wakes up we will read them to her. She will love to hear from all the people she loves so much.
So thank you!!!