Caden’s Page

We arrived home at about 11:30 am this morning.  Caden is doing great.  He has had no fever for almost 36 hours.  He was so happy to get out of that hospital.  He wiggled his feet and swayed in his head back and forth all the way home.  He went straight for the Geo-Trax train […]

Not only do we remain in the hospital, but we were moved to a very familiar place in the Children’s Hospital. We are back in 7C, the pediatric cardiology unit. It was about mid-night last night when the charge nurse over on 8D came and asked me if I would be willing to move to […]

It was my call to stay in the hospital with Caden over night even though we technically could have gone home with him tonight. The bleeding has all but stopped and Caden has met all of the doctor’s criteria for discharge. That said, the doctor was okay if we wanted to wait until the morning […]

The bleeding continued throughout the night.  The bleeding is very slow, but concerning enough for the doctor to want to keep Caden one  more day.  Caden’s attending ENT doctor will not be in the hospital until later today so he may change the plan once he sees Caden in person.  Right now I feel better […]

It was an eventfully day here at MUSC. I wrote a few emails today to those who subscribe to the email updates for Caden’s Page. I was unable to post directly to the blog for a while. Below is the majority of what I wrote today. Scroll to the bottom of this post for the […]

We have a time for the surgery tomorrow. The show time is 9am in the MUSC main (adult) hospital surgery check in. The surgery will actually begin somewhere around 10:30. The surgery procedure will require an inpatient stay. The procedure being performed is called a sphinterplasty. It is expected to improve speech and swallowing. The […]

I wanted to add a few pictures to show how much Caden wants to eat. The picture here on the right is from a therapy session just a few days after Caden turned 1 year old in November of 2005. This is to reassure those guys who hand Caden a sucker at church. Even though […]

We are one week out from the sphincterplasty. I have been looking for some on line references that give a graphical illustration of what this surgery is supposed to do. I have not had any luck. Caden has been doing pretty good and we are praying that he remains illness free so that the surgery […]

I apologize for the slow response in posting this praise report. My mom had the heart catheter done yesterday and the results were exactly what we asked you to pray for in the previous post. My mom is doing REALLY well. God’s power has been shown once again. No stints and no balloons were required. […]