UPDATE ON BELLA ❤️
Thank you all for all of the love and supportive messages! We love being a part of the BT community.
We took Bella to NC State Vet Hospital this morning and met with her cardiology team. After running some tests, they don’t feel confident that they would be able to complete the catheter procedure as Bella’s veins are still quite small. Because of this Bella will still be having surgery, but they will be going in surgically from her side to do the repairs (this is not open heart surgery).
We could have opted to wait for her veins to mature in size however, the cardiologists feel the trade off would be Bella’s heart taking more damage working overtime while we wait, damage we wouldn’t be able to reverse.
Bella’s cardiology team will be working with the soft tissue surgeons tomorrow morning to perform the surgery. We are optimistic and have faith in the wonderful team who will be working on Bella tomorrow morning ❤️
Thank you all for all of the love and supportive messages! We love being a part of the BT community.
We took Bella to NC State Vet Hospital this morning and met with her cardiology team. After running some tests, they don’t feel confident that they would be able to complete the catheter procedure as Bella’s veins are still quite small. Because of this Bella will still be having surgery, but they will be going in surgically from her side to do the repairs (this is not open heart surgery).
We could have opted to wait for her veins to mature in size however, the cardiologists feel the trade off would be Bella’s heart taking more damage working overtime while we wait, damage we wouldn’t be able to reverse.
Bella’s cardiology team will be working with the soft tissue surgeons tomorrow morning to perform the surgery. We are optimistic and have faith in the wonderful team who will be working on Bella tomorrow morning ❤️