What was the MIRACLE surgery that took place? If you remember back last weekend when I ACCIDENTALLY cut the Broviac (central) line…. the doc in the ER managed to use a patch kit. That kit lasted exactly ONE week. Saturday night the patch broke and we were back in the same situation as before. Joe was on call this weekend but I managed to reach the resident on call and told him that I thought we had used the last patch kit in the building. I really wanted to know if we needed to drive to Cincy to get a patch. Evidently between Joe and Dr. Alam, in conversations throughout the week, they decided that if the line was compromised again it should just come out.
I, was pretty much devastated. I fought SO hard for that line. It had been so great to have one! Then with my own two hands I dealt the fateful blow that would end the line’s life. I was angry at myself and at life itself. I could NOT believe this was happening.
They admitted us on Saturday night at 11 pm to Room 447. For anyone who knows my story completely… this was the room we stayed in during the traumatic broviac PLACEMENT. I guess it was rather appropriate that the Broviac would be gone from this room. It was a nice bit of finality to a devastating situation.
Sunday morning Joe came in and said that he was considering taking her to the PICU and doing some Propofal sedation to take it out, but wanted to call the OR first. Was it ANY slight of FATE that Dr. Reddy (our amazing favorite anesthesiologist) was in house that day? I think not.
Around 8:30 am they came for us and we went, as we have so many times before, to the OR. Dr. Reddy gave Ky some Happy Juice (read: Versed) and off they went in Ky’s Chariot (read: stroller). An hour or so later, it was done. Tears, anxiety, stress and all the devastation that came with that line…. done. Gone. Finished.
Not more than 4 hours after coming out of the OR Kyleigh walked out of that hospital. I know it might sound like a pipe dream to say “for the last time” but there was some kind of unearthly finality that came with this line being gone. I know that I have had miracles happen in my life. I know that I have watched God work in many ways but this time. I watched this whole thing unfold KNOWING that I was watching a miracle happen. I am so blessed and humbled.
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