Pictures. Her old heart and the first day in recovery.

Misky and daddy Sunday morning. =) Just walked into the hospital.

Waiting room. Misky is all checked into the PICU and in the OR. My grandparents had there 60th anniversary on saturday.   

There it is. It should be the size of a golf ball and it the size baseball so enlarged rubbery and flabby. Should be a harder and structed. Its the size of an adult heart. Its stringy inside. Amazing thats whats been keeping her alive

All the burned spots are from all the collaterals.  You can see inside her heart better now. Above the hole theres two smaller holes. The one on the right is the Atrium, the one on the left thats Teeny Tiny! is her Aorta. Should be the size of a pencil but is the size of a noodle.

Matt, anesthesiologist Said when they saw her heart it looked like a wet paper bag. They'd touch her heart it would go all crazy. Its one very sick little enlarged heart.

Getting a chest x-ray. The cart out side is all the gowns, masks, gloves for the medical staff to keep on if they touch her to keep the gems out. The towers on the floor net to the tech are for the chest tubes drainage.

shes a little puffy but not to bad.

Her stats!! 95!!!! Had to fight back tears when I saw that. She used to stat 69 for a low 85 high on room air. AMAZING!

Her and all the meds.

12 hours or so after post op. perfect

Her heart rate dropped to 110 so they had the pacer on for a few hours last night.

her hands and feet are a little puffy.

Jessi my niece brought her some super cute hair clips. Misky has to wake up more to see what else =)

My little girl.

Working on PEEP

Today they started a few other immunosuppressants. Added a feeding tube for one of the meds :o/  The Nurse said when she gets the breathing tube out she'll take that one out also.

Mariska is hanging in there. Shes not trying to sit up and remove things any more. She was a stinker yesterday.  Told her she can go home when everything comes off. Whoops once we left she started trying to pull things.

They turned up the PEEP (pressure inside the lungs) to try and stop some of the bleeding. Her heart had started sending feelers you can say to the lungs in search of more oxygen for the heart. Had no idea the heart could do something like that.! So they had to cauterize  all the vains to the lungs, Turning up the peep is like holding pressure on a cut helps stop or slow it down. Clear as mud? good.

Now the blood has slowed down and shes not moving and trying to cough as much. Looking to get that removed with one of the 3 chest tubes.

The pumps are drugs are all slowly being removed. Thanks for all the comments here and on facebook. Also thanks for the emails to the hospital.

 The next post will be pictures!

Hearts

We took a few pictures of her old heart Whats the vote??

Wanna see it? Vote yes or no ;) I"ll add a poll to the side..

Send a letter, mail a hug

Sorry for not posting for SO long. Something was up with the laptop... user error ;) and then couldnt get blogspot to work at the hospital. I"ll have sam give an update on all of todays events.

A few friends have asked how they can send a letter or post card. You just send it to the hospital and they will get it to her. Heres the address.


Mariska Anderson

100N. Mario Capecchi Drive
Salt Lake City, UT 84113

I was talking with the social worker about what to have others do when they want to help, Most of the time I'm just not sure what I need help with. But I thought this would be good for misky to look back on and see all the love and prayers from all of her Fans. =)

Shes doing well, going to try loosing the breathing tube tomorrow instead of today. She has some un needed vains in her lungs .Collaterals. So they cauterised them and now shes having a little bit of bleeding. Shes been trying to sit up! silly thing. So they gave her some more of the gooood stuff to help her stay asleep so she can heal.

Update # 3 Yaaaa

Cardiologist came out at 11:20 and said the heart is in Mariksa and the heart is working Great it will be about an hour more for them to close the chest.

Yippy...

Thank you for all your Prayers.

Love Sam & Melynda

update 2

Just got an update. Shes going on the bypass machine now. Waiting for the heart to get to the hospital.

Melynda