The valve replacement is complete, a small piece of Max's aorta also needed to be repaired as well. His vital signs all remain good and they do not expect there to be much if any bleeding (fingers crossed). The nurse also mentioned that the amount of scar tissue looked good, because Max is a "repeat offender" in the open heart surgery arena they would have expected to see greater scaring.
They are now warming Max's body so that they can take him off of the bypass machine. Now we need to pray for good heart function and no bleeding. Hopefully he'll be completely off the machine in a half hour or so and if all goes well we might be done in about two hours.
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