Scott and I opened up this week's issue of US News and World Report to find one of the feature articles to be about Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. The stort is about a little girl who had her three surgeries done in Texas and they chose the Norwood Procedure as opposed to the route we chose for Duncan: the Hybrid Sequence. The end result (after all three surgeries) is still the same... below is a link that takes you to the photo gallery included in the article. The print itself is not included.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/photography/ch_surgery/bigpicture.php?image=1
And for those of you who are interested in the anatomy of the heart... here is a diagram explaining what an HLHS patient's heart looks like when born and what the end result should be. Duncan's heart will operate like the picture on the right after his 2 year surgery. I continue to be amazed at what can be done as the field of medicine advances. Truly incredible.http://health.usnews.com/usnews/health/best-hospitals/heart-diagram.htm
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