Zoe had her surgery to repair the duct outside her heart yesterday.  We checked into Seattle Childrens Hospital around 7AM and they took her back for surgery around 8AM.  She did great, luckily she is still young enough that she doesn't quite know when something is going to happen until right before.  As long as we are with her, she's alright.  It also helped that they gave her some happy drugs that make her see flying bunnies or whatever a 2 year old might think is funny.  The prodeure took about 2.5 hours adn went really smoothly.  The size of the hole was rather large so they had to use a bigger device to close the hole than they originally thought, but it went in well.  The whole thing was done through a cardiac cath- which means that it was all done through the major artery in her groin.  Pretty amazign technology.

She recovered great and was happy as long as we were holding her and reading her books.  We spent the night in the hospital for observation, but she did really well.  She is still on a bit of supplemental O2 for a couple days, but will hopefully be off soon.

The results of the cardiac cath were about the same as last time.  No significant changes in the lung pressures, but her cardiologist is hopeful with a little time that closign the PDA will make a significant difference.  we go back in a month for an ECHO to see how everything looks.

The other exciting news is that we got the OK from everyone in GI and cardiology to pull Zoe's G-tube.  So that is our evening project tonight.  Supposedly, most of the time they close on their own in a few weeks. All we need to do is keep it covered and change the dressing in the mean time.  If it doesn't close entirely in a few weeks, we will have to go back in and have a few stitches put in surgically, but hopefully that is not an issue.  

Thank you for all the prayers and support for Zoe and Jason and I the last few weeks, we so appreciate it and it helps so much to know that Zoe is so loved.

I'll post more pictures once I get my new camera figured out, including one of Zoe's stomach before and after the g-tube!!!!