Soooo....
Where do I even begin...
Last Wednesday night (July 3) my brother went to the emergency room because he had a really bad cough and he was feeling like he felt before when he went through heart rejection.
I guess I should start from the beginning, since I have never talked about this.
My brother had congestive heart failure in 2009, and had a heart transplant because of it.
He died a few times and went through so much while recovering from the surgery.
In July 2012, he had an aortic bypass, which was then replacing his aorta with an artificial artery, which was 12 inches long.
His body is covered in scares from these surgeries and his monthly biopsies he undergoes to make sure he isn't rejecting his heart.
In December, my brother had a severe rejection.
On the scale they have for rejection, he was at 4 out of 5.
After about a month he was doing better.
He had a minor rejection a couple months ago, but it was a 2.
So back to the cough.
The cough was a result of an atrial flutter, which is basically his heart beat was irregular.
He has had this before and it has gone away, but this time is was bad enough that they wanted to do an ablation.
This procedure is pretty complicated to explain.
Basically they were using a laser to create a scar perpendicular to his scar from the transplant.
This corrects the flutter.
During the procedure (yesterday) my brother's heart stopped.
They tried to resuscitate him for an hour.
He is currently on life support and it is unknown right now if he will make it.
Tomorrow we are going to find out if he is brain dead or not, and if will wake up.
There's a huge chance he will die.
Although my family is trying to think positive and stay string, it is so hard for us to even begin to imagine what might happen.
There's nothing that can describe seeing your brother with tubes every where in his body, wires monitoring his heart, and machines keeping him alive.
Machines are the only thing that are keeping him alive right now and that is crazy to think about.
They put his body in hypothermia for 24 hours, and started warming his body up at 2 this afternoon.
Tomorrow some time they will stop the medication for the induced coma and see what he does.
Basically he will either wake up or not.
So, if you are reading this, please keep him in your thoughts and prayers.
Thank you.
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