{"id":75,"date":"2021-03-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cota1.wpengine.com\/cotaforhaven\/2021\/03\/28\/3-28-surgery-scheduled-in-april\/"},"modified":"2021-03-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T00:00:00","slug":"3-28-surgery-scheduled-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforhaven\/2021\/03\/28\/3-28-surgery-scheduled-in-april\/","title":{"rendered":"3\/28: Surgery scheduled in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Haven and Tanya will be heading back to Seattle on April 15th to address her tricuspid valve leaking.&nbsp; She will have preliminary appointments and multiple lab draws starting on the 16th to prepare for surgery on Monday, April 19th.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The surgical and transplant team have decided that the best route will be an open-heart procedure, but it gets a bit complicated once she is opened up.&nbsp; The surgeons are going to use a technique that brings the vessels closer together and place a band to hold the valve in place to reduce the regurgitation (the &#8220;leak&#8221; that allows blood to flow backwards&nbsp;back into the heart).&nbsp; They will then&nbsp;observe the heart while the chest is open&nbsp;so they can see&nbsp;if there is improvement in real-time.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If the leaking does not improve (if there is still moderate regurgitation), the team will move forward with a complete valve replacement.&nbsp; They can not give a timeline regarding recovery after this procedure, so we have no information about how long Haven and Tanya will be in Seattle at this time.<\/p>\n<p>I will post any changes if they come, but please keep Haven and her family in your thoughts as they prepare for this next procedure.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haven and Tanya will be heading back to Seattle on April 15th to address her tricuspid valve leaking.&nbsp; She will have preliminary appointments and multiple lab draws starting on the 16th to prepare for surgery on Monday, April 19th.&nbsp;&nbsp; The surgical and transplant team have decided that the best route will be an open-heart procedure, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforhaven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforhaven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforhaven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforhaven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforhaven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforhaven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}