“Your son is having open heart surgery”
That’s right. It’s time for the hole in Abdullah’s heart to be closed off and fixed. He’ll be 11 months by the time his surgery rolls around, which is September 1st. He is, alhumdu’lillah, doing really very well considering his condition. It’s almost like he doesn’t have any problem at all, actually.
But the reality is that he does have a problem. Not only does he have a large sized hole in his heart, his aorta is prolaptic and leaking. That’s the real issue, according to the cardiologist. We could’ve withheld surgery on Abdullah if he had just a hole in his heart, but the leaky valve is worth worrying about (finally, I guess…) So they want to go ahead and fix the valve and hole before it truly affects Abdullah’s health.
So some of you may be wondering, how does it feel to know your son is going to have open heart surgery? Continue reading
