Phase two of surgery today.

Yesterday was a very scary day for us. We almost lost Jolianne. She stopped breathing and her heart rate went down to 40 beats per minute. Normally it is 160 beats per minute. She had a blockage in her breathing tube which was causing her to not be able to catch her breath again. I can't quite put into words the experience right now, but I can tell you that things have changed considerably. In my heart and in my mind things are different. They hospital has become a very scary place to be. I am in fear most of the time. Every time I see her start to choke or her heart rate go down I have flash backs to what happened yesterday.

They are going to go ahead with part two of the surgery this morning. The attending physician said that we need to get her in A.S.A.P. All of the problems that she is having is from a very big collateral on her right side. He said that she will be a completely different person when she comes back. We have also come to the realization that she has something wrong with her right arm. I have suspected a problem for a few days now, her arm is completely limp. When you hold her hand she does not move her fingers at all, when you lift the arm up it flops back down. I hope that her arm recovers and she doesn't have any trouble with it. She is also bleeding a little from her new IV line. They had to put a line in her Jugular Vain in her neck. I hope that it doesn't turn in to a big problem. It seems the longer we are here the more problems we encounter. I will write again when I know something about her Heart Cath.

Love,
Crystal