They removed the balloon/blood pump that was helping pump her blood. Everything seems to be holding its own after the pump was removed so that's good. In other words, the pump was removed, her heart had to carry the full load of pumping and was able to handle it. The pump was put up from her groin area, but the wire for her pacemaker is still going up from there. They had tried to put that wire in from her neck, but couldn't, so they had to go up from her groin.
They did increase the sedation meds for that procedure, so she was not as responsive when I saw her this time.
They are now saying that they will probably not take the air tube out until tomorrow because of the hours they have to wait after removing the pump before they can elevate her head just a little, and then they have to wait again to elevator her head more, etc. So it looks like that will be tomorrow.
I overheard one of the doctors saying something I had heard before but had not understood, so I asked someone listening to him what it meant. He was saying that they can only find one of the three vein graft. Years ago, when they did the bypass surgery, they would have taken veins from somewhere (like her leg) and connected them to her heart. One of those they could not find (I think that would have been during the dye test they did the first night). Not being able to find it may mean that it is not functioning. I'm not sure what implications that has, so I'll try to ask someone.
Leslie and Brenda asked me to give Mom a big hug for each of them, so I did that before I left for the quiet time break they have at 2:30.
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