Surgery Time Tomorrow - Keep Praying

Thank you for your amazing and wonderful prayers and support. They are definitely helping. There are so many people to thank, but I do want to thank Shelley for putting together a prayer group to pray throughout Jiliang's surgery, even in such short notice.
Jiliang needs to be at the hospital tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. We are the second surgery that day. The surgery is scheduled to begin at 11:30, but it depends on what time the first surgery ends. The doctor said that it could take a while to prep her and get her wired up and intubated. That could take another hour. Dr. Ohye thought that he could even be started around 2:30 p.m. In other words, we have no idea, except to say that it will be after 11:30 officially. The surgery, once started, should take approximately 4 hours, unless there is a complication.
The early morning prayers will not be in vain, as she is now extremely nervous of hospitals. As soon as Scott and I left the house with her today, she must have thought, "Oh great, what medical torture awaits me today?" She knows that she is going to be poked and examined. She saw a teenager walk out of the lab after getting a blood draw with a Band Aid on his arm, so she frowned at me and hugged hugged me tight. I told her, "Yes, Jiliang, you are getting one poke here" holding up one finger and pointing to her arm. "Just one." She is a child that cannot be fooled and it's more conducive to just prep her about what is going to occur next.
The surgeon sounds very optimistic and confident that Jiliang would respond well to the surgery. Just a reminder, if you missed it, she does not have Tetralogy of Fallot. She has a more unusual defect called Truncus Arteriosis. They are going to separate her pulmonary and aortic arteries, creating a new pulmonary artery for her. It is amazing what medical advancements have been made in Cardiology over the years, and it will only continue to amaze us more over the next decade or two. After that, they will close her VSD or hole in her heart. The biggest obstacle is her lung pressures. We are praying that the pressures in her lungs begin to decrease. If they do not, then Dr. Ohye may have to open the VSD back up, and our surgery attempt will have been unsuccessful.
If the surgery is successful, and the pressures to the lungs decrease, she will have a chance at a remarkable, full life, like a normal kid, except for replacement conduits as she grows. Dr. Ohye also believes that she could potentially be a candidate for her next conduit in a cath lab in the future. He is also optimistic that Jiliang's heart will accept the changes and continue to thrive and do well, based on the data from her catheterization procedure last Friday; and based on her resiliency and ability to thrive up to this point.
It might be a while before I have a substantial update. I will try to post when she is in surgery and when she is stable. Jiliang will determine the length of her stay in the ICU recovery area, and in her total stay at the hospital in general. We are planning on a couple of weeks at least, but hoping for less.
Keep up the awesome prayers!
Thanks!
Jill