My thoughts and prayers are going up for Scooter and you as well. I've never had a furkid who had PDA, but our daughter did have surgery for PDA when she was 4 years old. The docs said they didn't know how she even lived to be 4 years old with the amount of oxygen she was getting in her blood, it wasn't enough. The did testing and found that her heart was severely enlarged, so bad that you could only see a few of her ribs on the one side. I don't know if it's the same for a furkid or not, you might want to talk to the cardiologist and find out, but they did have to put our daughter on life support when the procedure was done. I had NO CLUE about this until after everything was over. My husband and I were a complete wreck and so scared, but we gave it all to God and he carried our lil girl through and gave her safely back to us. She's now 21 years old and has another heart murmur, but this one isn't the kind that can hurt her so I'm very thankful for that, but, she does now have a bicuspid aortic valve that can cause problems later in life. Jess has a pretty big scar, actually ran all underneath of her breast and had another scar where they had to put a drainage tube in, it healed up to be a kealoid (sp) scar, but hey, at least she's alive and so I have no complaints about the scar at all. don't know how much difference the operation is with a furkid and a skin kid, but I know the fear and worry and lump in the throat that just won't go away has got to be the same. I'm here if you need to talk, just PM me, I'm also going to join your friends list on your profile as I'd like to keep up to date on how everything's going. Sending many, many hugs and prayers to you and Scooter, have faith if you believe in a higher power and just try and concentrate on Scooter coming through to live a long, happy and healthy life.
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~Tracy~ |