8/30/12: Yesterday August 29th was a very hard day for all of us, especially for Vicky. She was in surgery for 13 hours, as the doctor said “we went 6 hours over what we had predicted”, but Doctor and Vicky would not give up. The first step was to repair her overgrown left ventricle then needed to [...]

8/29/12: (2:52pm) They are now closing the wound and will disconnect the machine to see if Vicky’s heart will function by itself, if it doesn’t, then they will proceed to put the pacemaker. 8/29/12: (1:24pm) Hi everybody, just wanted to keep you updated on Vicky’s surgery, she was taken to the operating room at 7:30 am [...]

8/27/12: Hi everybody, today Vicky had the catheter done, the doctor said that she will need an aortic mecanic valve, the left ventricule needs to be brought down to its normal size since it has over grown, also her blood fluid needs to be corrected, she is not getting enough blood pumped to her brain, due [...]

7/17/12:  Based on the conversation with hospital financial staff yesterday, the administration requires a down payment of $29,965 today and the balance $162,080 before July 30th in order to move forward with the procedure scheduled for tomorrow 7/18/12. At this time, the hospital is not considering the payment of the balance of the previous (2nd) surgery that was [...]

7/12/12:  Vicky just got word that she is scheduled to have her surgery next Wednesday July 18, 2012 at Miami’s Children’s Hospital