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That word Open Heart Surgery makes me so scared. I couldn't imagine baby girl going through something like that. On one of our follow ups, guess when the weight gain had stagnated and everyone kept commenting on how thin/small our daughter was, the doctor felt that we should plan for the operation earlier than the 2 years. That brought shivers. The doctor gave us a name of a cardiologist and hospital in India. I forgot to mention that when we received the news about the ASD we sent the echo pictures to several hospitals in India just to seek an opinion and every time the emails came back they affirmed our fears but varied on the timings of the operation. So once we received the name of the surgeon , we got in touch, sent results and he was willing to carry out the operation.

We further settled for the date and got the costs of operation and flight etc. It was a costly venture and it only needed God. Bearing in mind that we didn't want samara to be stigmatized, how would we raise USD 10,000? Only our families and a few friends were aware. That stressed me more, but God has been faithful. Now we do the count down to the days and am scared at times, am happy at times but I know the lord has gone before us.

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