Praise all the Gods, Our Sarah is finally out of surgery after 8 hours. Sarah Elizabeth Bryan now has the 2 holes in the ventricular wall closed, the 2 holes and the 2 new holes for a total of 4 in the atria, a tear found while doing a sonagram in the tricuspid valve was leaking and they sewed it up , a new pulmonary valve and a new aortic valve. She is alert and very unhappy about the breathing tube which is causing her blood pressure to go up and her little repaired heart to beat 60 times a minute, which to us is a miracle, it has never been recorded beating anywhere a many times as that. This surgery was much more complicated than they thought and a lot more surgery than was done on her when she was 9 days old. But The Doctors fell that her heart is now " all in one piece" now. (of course a floating aortic and pulmonary valve is not exactly normal, but it works). Her little fingers and toes and face is no longer blue, her hands and feet warm to the touch for the very first time ever. How great to think about the fact that in a few months she will be able to ride her new bike down the road with the rest of her brothers and sisters and cousins. Or run out in the fields with the rest of them without gasping for breath. Although she will be uncomfortable and cranky for a few days, it has been well worth it and the Doctors have said that she will not need surgery for about 10 years, which will also be a blessing. I cannot e-mail all of you to say thanks for your words of encouragement and your blessings, so please accept this as our thanx. To send a card to Our Sarah, the address below. She will be in hospital until at least Tuesday, possibly longer. We still need blood donated in Our Sarah's name, get well cards and if you can't do that, next time you go to a MacDonalds Hamburger Place, drop your change in the Ronald MacDonald House change box. That will be our home for the next week, at a nominal $10.00 a day, which is $110.00 less per day than we have paid at a hotel for the last 2 days. Please and thank you. Blood donations in Sarah Elizabeth Bryan, UC San Francisco's name will be credited to the hospital. Address for cards Our Sarah Sarah Elizabeth Bryan, Rm. 10, Card. Peds. ICU % UCSF Medical Center 505 Parnassus Avenue San Francisco, CA 94122 Please write PLEASE FORWARD on it in case it doesn't make to her before she leaves. For my O'Connor List, [email protected], also known as Mary has gratefully volunteered to help out with the list. Thanx Mary. If you have any problems please let her know. She can only help so much, but she is there in case you have questions. I will not be available after tonight, The friends' computer I'm using is going out of town. Again, I thank all for everything, you guys are really just great. I hope I gave out all of the info I needed to. Ley **Teddy, would you please pass on the above info to Jacqi for me, Please. Hope all is well there.