{"id":78,"date":"2021-04-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cota1.wpengine.com\/cotaforhaven\/2021\/04\/19\/recovering-after-surgery\/"},"modified":"2021-04-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T00:00:00","slug":"recovering-after-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforhaven\/2021\/04\/19\/recovering-after-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Recovering After Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Haven&#8217;s surgery lasted 11.5 hours today.&nbsp; She is back in her room and recovering, but she will continue to be on a ventilator so her body can rest.&nbsp; There was extensive scar tissue to maneuver around, and small bleeds in that tissue, that extended the length of the surgery.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The surgeons went ahead with a full bovine valve replacement.&nbsp;&nbsp;They also added mesh to help protect the heart and make it easier to perform open-heart procedures in the future.&nbsp; The doctors hope the valve will last approximately 5-10 years, but there are many factors that can affect that number.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The great news is that the head surgeon said the valve is working really well and they are already seeing improved function on the right side of her heart!&nbsp; He was very pleased with the end result and thinks it will help Haven&#8217;s overall health and function.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thank you all for the outpouring of love and support!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haven&#8217;s surgery lasted 11.5 hours today.&nbsp; She is back in her room and recovering, but she will continue to be on a ventilator so her body can rest.&nbsp; There was extensive scar tissue to maneuver around, and small bleeds in that tissue, that extended the length of the surgery.&nbsp;&nbsp; The surgeons went ahead with a [&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-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforhaven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","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=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforhaven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforhaven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}