The last update was misnumbered. Sorry! Also the study was about kidney damage not liver. Apparently any heart surgery involves a risk of kidney damage. Most of the time it is very minor and temporary. The research is designed to see if some kids are in a higher risk zone or not. So there is no real danger to Thaddeus, but the more data they get the better.
About noon the surgeon came in to talk to us. He said that he thinks Thaddeus is a good candidate for the surgery today. He seemed very chipper and confident. His emergency surgery was taken care of and he was raring to go on Thaddeus. We just had an update a bit after 2:00. They are through the chest, have Thaddeus on the heart and lung machine, have him cooled down (they lower the body temp during surgery) and are starting on the heart. It will be a few hours yet before we can see him. Apparently they had a relatively OK time getting in the various lines and IVs and such.
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