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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 […]

Yesterday was another whirlwind of a day! We got all the pre-op stuff done yesterday and it was a lot more than we expected. Caden was home last night and will be going into surgery this morning to get a pacemaker implanted. We will arrive at 10am with the surgery starting at noon. It should […]

The subject tells the story for the most part. Caden will be admitted into the hospital tomorrow morning 6/14/06 in order to receive a pacemaker on Thursday. We received a call from Caden’s cardiologist last week and got stunned by his recommendation for Caden to get an internal artificial pacemaker implanted due to heart blocks […]