As of right now, 2:42 pm, on Tuesday afternoon, Mia's cath is still a go. I have checked with our cardiologist and the schedulers at the hospital. Hopefully I don't jinx it by typing this post.
I'm nervous. I have butterflies in my stomach and I feel like I need to check and re-check everything. Between Tuesday last week (day before the original cath) and today, I have cleaned our house, almost top to bottom. I have to keep my hands and my mind busy.
Last week as we were approaching the original cath day, I was uneasy. To the point that I had, what I would call, a gut feeling that something was going to go horribly wrong. Perhaps it was that it all got cancelled and rescheduled, I don't know. But I haven't felt that way for the past week. I wouldn't go as far as to say that I've felt ease and contentment, but I haven't felt the on-edge feeling that I was having previously.
We will be on the road tomorrow morning by 5 am. We have to be to the hospital at 6. And Mia's cath is at 7:30. Who knows how long it will take, ideally, it will be 2-3 hours long. Her last cath lasted more like 5-6 hours. We will try to update when we can. Once everything is said and done, we should know within the next day or two when the doctors predict her Fontan surgery will be. Even after the cath is over, and you'd think our fears and nerves will subside, they won't. Then we'll be moving on to a whole new time of preparation. Preparation for open heart surgery number three.
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