Written by: Mercy Strickland 9/2/2009 7:01 AM
When Devayani moved in with us, we took her to the doctor for vaccination and medical check-up. During the check-up, the doctor found out that she had split sounds in her heart beat and referred us to a cardiologist. After going through few tests, echo-cardiograph and the scan, we found out that she had a hole in her heart referred to as Atrial Septal Defect (ASD). It is a birth heart defect. Because of ASD, extra blood passes into the lungs causing higher pressure thus damaging the lungs.
Because the hole was big, open heart surgery was her only option. We got her admitted to the hospital on 3rd August. The hospital wanted us to bring Devayani’s mother to sign the consent papers. But tracking her down was a nightmare. She refused to come to the hospital because she had to cook for her son who is 20 yrs old. We finally convinced her to go to the hospital and sign the papers. She seemed very upset with her daughter because of her medical condition. She told her daughter that she delivered 8 babies and never had to go to the hospital even once in her lifetime and that Devayani was a curse to the famiy.
The day before surgery, the hospital wanted us to bring 5 people with AB-ve blood group or they wouldn't go ahead with the surgery. First of all finding people who would donate blood would be difficult and to make matter worse, we needed 5 people with AB-ve blood. We finally met a guy who works at the hospital,he promised to take care of that situation.
Finally the surgery was done. She was in the hospital for a week. She is stable and recovering. Thanks for all your prayers. Will keep you all posted.
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