The Beginning

I have created this blog to chronicle the events of Emily's surgery. For those of you who my not know about Emily's problem here it goes. Emily was born with what is called a pectus excavatum. In simpler terms her sternum is malformed. The middle of her sternum caves in thus giving her a sunken chest. Over the years we have taken her to a Pediatric Surgeon to have her evaluated. This past May she had a CT scan that showed compromise on her heart. The Pediatric Surgeon referred Emily to a Pediatric Cardiologist for evaluation. After testing the Cardiologist determined that Emily's sternum was pressing on her heart, her heart had been pushed over to the side of her chest and was also pressing on a lung. The decision was then made that Emily would need to have surgery to correct this problem.