Please Pray For Father Brian ( Theologian In Training )

[KnightofChrist]

For those that may not have Facebook, and would like to know how Father is doing here is an update from him...

 

 

All incision dressings: gone
All IVs: out
Chest tube sutures: removed
What does that mean? A week and a day after the surgery:
I'M GOING HOME!

 

[CrossCuT]

I as well, in layman's terms I had a hole in my heart. I'm told now they can fix the same problem with leaving one without a zipper chest. But oh well I rather like mine, I call it my battle scar when people ask about it. Anyway I pray your brother will continue to be bless with good health and a strong heart.

 

Ah yes! That usually occurs as a result of the hole not closing at birth. All wee babes have the hole there while we are in our mothers womb. The reason it is there is because we dont utilize our lungs so the blood does not need to be pumped separately so instead, it just passes between to two  sides of the heart. 

 

However, when the baby takes its FIRST breath, that hole is suppose to close as the lungs are now required. Sometimes the hole doesnt close though. They can pretty easily fix that now from what I understand. 

 

 

Im glad Father Brian is doing better though! :)

[KnightofChrist]

Ah yes! That usually occurs as a result of the hole not closing at birth. All wee babes have the hole there while we are in our mothers womb. The reason it is there is because we dont utilize our lungs so the blood does not need to be pumped separately so instead, it just passes between to two  sides of the heart. 

 

However, when the baby takes its FIRST breath, that hole is suppose to close as the lungs are now required. Sometimes the hole doesnt close though. They can pretty easily fix that now from what I understand. 

 

 

Im glad Father Brian is doing better though! :)

 

Yes, sounds a lot like it anyway, and in non layman's terms it is known as Atrial Stentical Defect. What's crazy is that I had both a hole and something like a blockage known as Pulmonary Stenosis. Which just was a fusing of the leaflets in the pulmonary valve. Which makes it harder for the blood to flow from the heart to the lungs.

 

Anyway, thank you and everyone else for their prayers for Father Brian. I do not even really know him, outside of the internet, but he is a priest, and I care for all priests very much.

 

O Lord grant us holy priests!
O Lord grant us many holy priests!

Edited January 16, 2014 by KnightofChrist