We were able to talk to Dr. Deeb yesterday (he was SO kind enough to stop in on his way home) and ask a few questions in regards to Friday's Surgery. You may remember Dr. Deeb is the surgeon that focused on the aortic valve and was brought into the operation room to determine if he could repair Sam's valve or if needed a replacement. He was so kind enough to stop in Sam's room for a few minutes and meet with us. Sam's face lit up when he saw him and he is part arabic so we are automatically related somehow ;) This was the first time that Sam was able to talk to one of the surgeons about the surgery.
He was able to briefly tell him about the mitral valve repair that Dr. Bolling did. We found out that this was the 2nd congenital defect in this nature that Dr. Bolling has operated on in his career. He has done over 2,500 mitral valve operations. This was all new news to me as well as Dr. Bolling seemed to leave this out during our initial post surgery recap.
Dr. Deeb went onto say his aortic valve was so destroyed that he couldn't and wouldn't try to repair it for fear he would need another operation too soon. He looked at Sam and told him "If you were my son I would have made sure you had a replacement with a bovine valve and that's what I did because I know it lasts a lot longer." Sam smiled and was thankful. He doesn't always believe what I say to him so at least he can see we are all on the same page!
Needless to say I already have some thank you cards drafted for each doctor to be left on their desks...I can now see why they say maize and blue....cause its amazing at the U.
PS. We haven't been able to see Dr. Bolling since the surgery since he is in Orlando for a conference however, he did promise me some mickey mouse ears when he hugged me goodbye on Friday and told me Sam was looking great.
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