This is Victoria. Maya was finished with surgery at 3:45pm. The surgeon met with us and told us the surgery went very well. He was able to complete it laproscopically vs. opening her up. He told us that the tumor was actually on her middle right lobe vs. her lower right lobe as they had originally thought. He said the tumor was large and hanging down blocking the view of the good lower lobe. So Maya's upper lobe and lower lobe will grow and fill in the space where the middle lobe would have been. They said there was no issue/complications from the cardiac issues (see previous blog on PDA/PFO issues).
Next steps... Maya currently has a chest tube in which has suction on to drain any fluid and/or air in her chest cavity. Later tonight they will do an xray of the chest with the tube in to see if there is any fluid or air in the chest cavity. Tomorrow if all is going well, they will remove the chest tube and do another xray to ensure there is no air and/or fluid in her chest cavity. She is currently on IV fluids and may be able to have milk tonight. They are monitoring her and if she is fussing, they will give her a bolus dosage of morphine for pain. Right now she is not fussing and is probably still on the pain drugs from surgery. They are also giving her humidified oxygen via a tube on her nose to help with the dryness in her throat from where the breathing tube was. We do not yet have an estimated discharge date yet. We will know more after the chest tube is out. We do know that they want her on antibiotics until Sunday as a precaution for the PDA/PFO as well as the chest tube.
If we get news from the xray before too late tonight, we will do another blog update today. Otherwise our next update will be tomorrow. That is unless Chris feels inspired to add on to the above ;-)
Thank you to all for your healing and prayers... they worked!
Love you all
Victoria and Chris
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