Cardiac surgery

She was induced at 39 weeks because of this condition and it was a long, difficult labor.

But Georgie did end up delivering vaginally and then she shares what it was like watching her baby go to NICU and having open heart surgery at just seven days old.

This story really stayed with me and I'm sure that it will be so helpful to women out there.

I hope that you love it and I will hand over to Georgie now to share her story with you all.

And sitting right here across from me, which we are very, very thankful, is Steve Mallet.

Now, a couple of weeks ago, we all know, we heard the story, Steve underwent open heart surgery for a genetic heart condition.

And today we wanted to give everybody a real update on how he's doing, what recovery has actually looked like, and maybe talk about a few things that people really don't understand about having open heart surgery and Until you're the one going through it.

But, Steve, welcome.

Well, thank you.

I don't want you to slow down.

I want to be able to speed up to keep up with you.

Well, I told you that now, granted, he's just in med school, but he witnessed my son has witnessed or had has been involved in an open heart surgery.

So I would say if you sought care in the 90s or even early 2000s for aortic stenosis, which is tightening of the aortic valve or mitral valve leakage or tricuspid valve leakage, all of these valves that can either be super tight or they can leak.

the only way to treat them was with open-heart surgery.

Because open-heart surgery is such a big deal, you would wait for patients to be really sick before you take them to the OR and put them under the knife.

Now, a whole different world of innovation has occurred and brought therapies to these patients that do not involve open heart surgery.

Now we can actually replace all of these valves, the aortic valve, mitral valve, tricuspid valve.

They're walking the same day.

They're awake and walking and leading their normal lives the same day, and we discharge them the next day.

So I think that's revolutionary because traditional open-heart surgery means weeks of recovery in the hospital, much more procedure related complication and long recovery.

I

had open heart surgery for the first time.

In 1972, they didn't know what they were doing.

So 2015, I had open heart surgery.

I went into the second surgery so blasé, it was untrue.

I ended up with post-op depression that was so bad, I went for a ride with the whole intention of not coming home.

1972, I think that was the year you were born, because I think you're a year younger than me.

76.

your

first open-heart surgery at the age of 16, to the plane crash, to the melanoma, then the second and the series of open-heart surgery that occurred in the 2000s, I just want to say this, that...

You are definitely here on earth for a purpose because you are a Christian, right? Yes.

It's safe to say that God, the God yourself, has actually given you opportunities, chance upon chance, and you're definitely here on earth for a purpose.