Caden’s Page

The following picture was taken Saturday afternoon out at Folly Beach exactly one week after Caden was moved out of the PCICU following his heart surgery. PRAISE GOD!!! What a joy it is to see Caden doing so well. It has now been just over ten days since the surgery for Caden. He has been […]

What a wonderful Father’s Day present to have my little boy Caden get to come home from the hospital. Praise God for the small miracles. This picture was taken in our living room this afternoon. He is playing with a stuffed animal that our friend Angela brought to the hospital for Caden while he was […]

We got settled into 7C pretty well. Caden continues to do good. Sherry and I got Caden off to sleep tonight so that we could have a romantic anniversary dinner. Okay, I am sure Sherry would say that romantic is not the right word. We had Kick’n Chicken delivery on paper plates by hospital room […]

Caden is doing much better today. We got out first full blown smile out of him this morning since the surgery. Right now Riley and Caden are sitting up in the bed watching Veggie Tales. We think that we will be up here until Monday based on early estimates of when Caden will be discharged. […]

Caden is off the ventilator. He was taken off earlier this morning. He went through a little spell after that where he had a hard time breathing. A chest x-ray showed a little bit of fluid/mucus in his left lung. Then did some deep suctioning, rolled him on his right side, and that seems to […]

Caden is still on the ventilator this morning. They tried weening him off last night, but they had to come back up on the rate because blood tests and observations of Caden showed that he was not picking up breathing on his own as the machine was being turned down. This is mostly because he […]

Caden is stable. He is still on the ventilator and will probably remain on it until tomorrow morning. He is coming off of the anesthesia medications VERY slowly but smoothly. We were told that Caden took an impressive amount of anesthesia medication during the surgeries. They said that he kept “eating medication” while under anesthesia […]

We just met with the surgeon. Caden is doing good. All of the surgical procedures went well. Caden has just been transferred from the operating room to the PCICU. We have not seen Caden yet as they are still getting him settled into the ICU. I will post an update again later this evening.

Caden did not go into surgery until about 2:00 PM. We think the surgeon’s morning case ran a little long. We are waiting in the PCICU waiting room. We did decided to go forward with the artery/esophagus procedure. The doctors and the surgeon did not seem suprprised by our decision. They were actually well prepared […]