Surgery is Done

It is nearly 9pm and Nick and I are sitting by Ada's bedside in the CICU - cardiac intensive care unit.  What a day.  We got to the hospital a little after 7 this morning and checked in and soon were chatting with Nick's parents and sisters and my parents, our support people for the day.  We brought Ada into the Cardiac Pre-Unit and got her changed into a hospital gown.  We sang a few songs and did a lot of snuggling.  By 9 am the nurse had arrived to take Ada into the operating room.
The surgery itself took less than the expected 4 hours, and it went off without much of a hitch.  Everyone went according to the planned procedure, the Glen procedure as it is called.  The one additional aspect was that Ada's hole between her left and right ventricle was enlarged.  Then, her superior vena cava was attached to her pulmonary artery.  Her time on the heart and lung machine didn't seem to cause much of an issue, and her heart started up just fine on its own once the procedure was complete.
By about 2 in the afternoon Nick and I were allowed into the ICU to see her.  She is still trying to come out of the heavy sedation, and is likely experiencing a pretty massive headache, in addition to pain from the incision and the number of tubes, IVs, and wires all over.  It is pretty sad to hear her quietly cry, though I'm sure we'll hear it much louder and stronger once she really wakes up from all the sedation.
We are so very, very grateful for the successful outcome of the procedure!  We were definitely both "at peace", or as much as could be expected given our situation, while Ada was in the operating room.  In a sense, it is almost more difficult to be here with her and see her in pain, but we know that she is healing.  It is all a process.
We'll post more later, but wanted to at least give a bit of an update.  Thank you so much for all of you prayer warriors out there, remembering us and our dear little one!