Isabelle Bentley

Isabelle had her pre-op at Boston Children's today. She had blood drawn (cbc fine but thyroid is a little high - they may be able to reduce her meds). They did a chest xray which looked fine. They did an ekg and an echo. We met with a nurse practitioner, a surgical fellow, anesthesiology and her cardiologist. We found out this surgery will take longer and eh may be here longer and there are more complications than the first time. She's having LVOTO surgery. 

Izzie's pre-op day at Boston Children's Hospital.  Today has been very long. We had to be here at 7:30a to check in. They gave us wicked cool temporary badges as seen below. Then we got bloodwork done. They had a hard time finding her veins. Must be a Fuchs thing. They tried both arms and she screamed the entire time :( Her potassium levels came back a little high but nothing to worry about.  Then she has a chest x-ray but we weren't able to take pics of that.  After, they did an ekg (seen below) and then they measured her height (20.5 inches), weight (8lbs, 8oz), and head circumference (36cm). They checked her blood pressure which since she was screaming was high. Her pulse and oxygen were fine. Then we had our surgical consult where we found out the nitty gritty step-by-step details of her surgery tomorrow. I will detail those tomorrow.  Then we went on a tour of both the cardiac ICU and step down level cardiac ICU.  Then we had our anesthesi...