Thursday, September 22, 2005
Partners of the Heart
Hi.
I wanted to post a quick update.
Sophia has a pre-op appointment tomorrow. I will post the details of her surgery in the afternoon.
I wanted to also recommend a documentary about Vivien Thomas and Alfred Blalock. These two men invented the surgery that Sophia has already had. Not only was it the very first heart surgery ever. Vivien Thomas(pictured above) was a black man in the segregated south and had only a high school education.
The documentary called "Partners of the Heart" is a PBS American Experience project. We got it through netflix.
There is a website here.
Check out the operation link. It illustrates very clearly the Blalock-Taussig Shunt procedure.
-Michael
I wanted to post a quick update.
Sophia has a pre-op appointment tomorrow. I will post the details of her surgery in the afternoon.
I wanted to also recommend a documentary about Vivien Thomas and Alfred Blalock. These two men invented the surgery that Sophia has already had. Not only was it the very first heart surgery ever. Vivien Thomas(pictured above) was a black man in the segregated south and had only a high school education.The documentary called "Partners of the Heart" is a PBS American Experience project. We got it through netflix.
There is a website here.
Check out the operation link. It illustrates very clearly the Blalock-Taussig Shunt procedure.
-Michael
