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Daryan Heads to Surgery in 8 Hours w/ Est. 80% Likelihood of Success
July 26, 2009 by Jeremy
After days of watching and waiting for other parents’ children to receive the life-saving heart surgeries they came to receive, Daryan’s turn has come. Daryan will be in surgery at midnight Central Time (just eight hours from the time of this posting).
Unlike most of the other surgeries, however, whose risk factors have been between 5-10%, Daryan’s surgery has a very sobering 20% amount of risk involved (in the surgery itself). Moreover, the ability for this little child to recover from a surgery of this magnitude…. that is something that only God knows.
PLC staff and summer interns have done their best to serve Daryan’s mother (and all of the families) during their wait. Above is PLC co-founder, Jessica Courtney, giving Daryan’s a much needed break from the non-stop responsibilities of motherhood. As Daryan goes to surgery in the morning and recovers in ICU for the following few days, those are no doubt responsibilities she will be happy to take up again as soon as she can.
One thing about this work we do - it helps us appreciate the things that matter in life.
Follow 4-month-old Daryan on Twitter: @daryansalah. Subscribe to Daryan’s updates via RSS here. Follow Daryan’s thread of longer stories (with pictures) on the PLC blog here.
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Jeremy Courtney lives and loves in Iraq as a co-founder and Executive Director of the Preemptive Love Coalition. He's also the father of two spectacular children, and married to the lovely Jessica Courtney. When not absorbed in PLC work he can be found writing songs and singing about hope and future. |
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