Hospitalization Updates Start Here

These updates will be emails from my mom. She will be sending updates as news comes in and they will also be sent here.

Here is the first update

Hey...I am sending out a mass email to ask everyone for your prayers and good thoughts for Katie. She is in the hospital in Portsmouth. Last week, she spent a night in the hospital with extreme chest pains. They ran some tests, and gave her some meds to help with the pain. They didn't work...as a matter of fact, she got an incredible migraine. Yesterday, Dan took her back to the hospital, and they admitted her for observation and more tests. Her chest pains have increased, although the headache has subsided. They discussed changing one of her heart medications. After doing another echocardiogram today, and talking with a cardiovascular surgeon, they have decided to do a heart catheterization tomorrow morning. The stent that was placed in January 2005 may be obstructed, or there may be other obstructions. Based on the cath results, they may decide to do an unroofing procedure and a myectomy, possibly later this week. This is open heart surgery!! These two procedures are the ones that we were going to do back in January 2002, but the surgery was cancelled at the last minute.

Thanks...

Kim