I know it has been a while since we posted. I want to post more, but I don’t want to bore you with our everday live. Our life has its unique little struggles but our life goes on. I have done a lot of thinking in recent days about how our circumstances impact each of […]
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Sunday, April 5th, 2009This past weekend was full of joy and excitement. The joy came from celebrating Riley’s baptism. This was really special for me since I got to perform the baptism. The fun excitement came on a positive note with the boys getting to have all their grandparents in town for the weekend. The not-so-fun excitement came […]
Great News from Cardiology Caden went for his 6 week post op check up with cardiology this week. The result was great. The nurse practitioner for Caden’s cardiologist said that Caden looked better than ever. The cardiologist said that he could not hear a murmur at all anymore. Caden was released to an unrestricted physical […]
Caden went in for a post op appointment today just nine days after open-heart surgery. He was given two thumbs up by the cardiologist. They looked him over pretty carefully including performing an echo cardiogram. The echo looked great and all of Caden’s numbers O2 sats, blood pressure, and heart rate were all good. The […]
Caden was taken off the respirator at about 10am this morning (Tues. 9/23) and he has had one chest drain tube removed. He has been awake some today and has been responding to Sherry and me by nodding his head and signing with the one hand that does not have a line in it. He […]
Caden was discharged this evening. The surgery was cancelled for a couple of reasons. The first reason is that all surgeries at MUSC are cancelled for Friday 9/5/2008 due to potential tropical storm conditions along the SC coast. The second reason Caden will not have this ENT and general peds surgery is that the cardiologist […]
We are still here and may be here up into the weekend based on events of today. Sherry had a bunch of doctors come by today. We finally got to see some familiar faces with Caden’s ENT doctor, general surgeon, and endocrinologist stopping by. Rough Night Last night (Monday night) was very rough for Caden. […]
Caden is being admitted to MUSC after the ER visit mentioned in the previous post. The fever he had when Sherry left for the hospital earlier today took four hours to break. Sherry and the ER doctor hit it off really well. The doctor was very straight forward and transparent about his line of thinking […]
I know I pretty much left everyone hanging after the trip to Philadelphia. Leaving everyone hanging was not my intent but rather a result of some unknowns and my state of mind in reference to all that is going on. The end result after CHOP was that the orthopedic surgeon up there agrees with the […]