Surgery is Complete!!

Today finally ended after a long 10.5 hour surgery.  After they got in there they found there was more that needed repaired then they originally thought.  They put in a new pulmonary valve.  He had to carve out quite a bit of muscle to make way for the pulmonary valve.  He also put in the left pulmonary artery and then had to put in a right artery as well(as I understood.)  They had originally only done the left but then when they took him off the heart lung machine he struggled quite a bit.  He also closed the hole between the bottom two chambers.  He then had to create another small whole to help at this point, but not in the same place the other one was.  This hole they can close in a cath lab if they need to.  They will keep him very sedated for the next few days as the first 12 to 24 hours is the most critical.  Dr. Fortuna is very happy with the surgery and doesn't expect anything to happen but they will be monitoring him very closely.   v