September 3

Hello,

My mom has been in the hospital in Midland since August 24th. She went in with a heart problem that is technically atrial fibrillation.

Last Saturday afternoon things got very worse and Mom was diagnosed with a severe heart attack. We were told she would not last the night. We were all shocked the next morning as she sat up and ate her breakfast! The tests turned out wrong and the Doctors missed the diagnosis- or another physician had his hand on her all the time............

Labor Day she had a heart catheter which showed that her heart murmur is much worse. This means her mitral valve in her heart is leaking severely. The other kids met with her and the surgeon today which laid out two options.

One is to do nothing and her next heart incident is apt to be catastrophic. Two is to replace the valve through open heart surgery. Mom told the other kids she planned on going ahead with the surgery but wanted to talk to me. I got there about 7PM and we all discussed the plans. I believe she will give the OK for the surgery in the morning- and it will probably be scheduled for next week.

Mom looked quite tired tonight as did Greig and Susan and Marlene and Sharon. We are working on a plan to get everyone home for at least a few days before the surgery- except for Mom. She'll have to stay!

We will try to keep this up-to-date and not too technical. But we will be using this as a means to communicate to each other as to what is going on with Mom but we'll be respectful...........

Anyone who knows Nellie Grey know how central God is in her life. I am sure she would want me to thank you for your prayers over the last few days. More than once I have heard the term, "Divine Intervention" in the last few days- once was from the treating Doctor!

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Creig