"We Love Andrea" was created to update Andrea's friends as she went through a difficult journey. After her second heart transplant when her pulse began to speed up she was given a pacemaker, then a Heart Mate II or LVAD. She was in the Stollery Children's Hospital, then the Mazankowski heart unit in Edmonton, Alberta for 7 months. However, she peacefully died on May 11, 2011 when the rest of her heart and other organs could handle the strain no longer. If you come to this blog, pray for her family and friends, remember to tell your friends you love them, then sign your organ donor card.

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Pacemaker

Hey any of you Edberg people got the quick alert this morning that Andrea was going into surgery. This morning at 7 AM she had an MRI and was likely getting a pacemaker put in at 9 AM. I don't know how any of it went, and I don't want to bug Maynards to find out...
But for those of you who want to know more about such, here's Wikipedias link to pacemakers- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_pacemaker
Basically, its a little electronic device below the skin that keeps the heart beating regularly. And people can have long healthy lives with them, they do not limit life expectancy.
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