We have been told that Caden has been off the heart lung bypass for enarly two hours, but was experiencing some bleeding. They have been delaying closing Caden’s chest until bleeding was under control. Praise God!!! While typing this post we got a page that Caden is in the PCICU and the surgeon will be out to talk with us […]
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008Caden is very stable. We just got our 3rd update from the operating room. The surgeon is moving forward with the Ross Procedureto replace the aortic valve. This greatly lengthens the time in the operating room to approximately 12 hours. That said we should not expect Caden out of surgery until 6pm or later tonight. […]
Caden is very stable. They are just now putting Caden on heart lung bypass at a few minutes after 9am 9/22/08. The nurse practitioner said that updates will be coming about once per hour until they are finished with surgery. We have been issued a pager that allows them to update us directly from the […]
We have been instructed to have Caden at the surgery check-in area of the main hospital of MUSC at 5:30am on Monday 9/22/08. The surgery will be performed on the 4th floor of the main building of MUSC and Caden will be transferred to the PCICU (pediatric cardiology intensive care unit) on the same floor. […]
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. […]
We are still at MUSC and the source of the fevers has not been identified. Caden has been on and off of oxygen for the past 24 hours. His O2 sats were dropping into the 80s without oxygen. His normal range is 97+. His heart defects did not affect his SATS the way some kids […]
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 […]
A firm heart surgery date has been set for October 15th. I say firm date because that is the date that we have reserved on the schedule. There is a slim chance that we may get the surgery done on September 22nd, however that date is dependent on the surgical load of the doctor leading […]
Our visit with Caden’s cardiologist today was bizarre in some ways. We sort of had ourselves built up for what we thought we were going to hear and BAM! And then before it is all over with the cardiologist says they will be putting Caden on the schedule for pacemaker removal AND the major left […]