Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Update on Heart Catheterization and 2nd Surgery!

Hello everyone, well the Heart Cath went great, We checked in the hospital at 530 in the morning and then at 630 they took us to where his room was.Liam did so good since the last time he ate was at 1030pm and he wasn't allowed to eat after 12 and he got up about 330 am and he was full of smiles like always!!
About an hour later they came and got him for the Cath Lab, we got to go down to the lab and go inside and be with him until the doctors came, so we undressed him and got him comfortable on the table that he was going to be on for the procedure. About 15 min later the doctors were ready to get things started with the anesthesia and so we went to the waiting room and waited until they called us to go to the recovery room which was about 4 hours later. They said once Liam woke up he could go back to his room, well we waited and waited and waited and waited and Liam would not wake up he would open his eyes if we said his name but he would still just go back to sleep,so finally 5 hours later my little guy woke up! We got back to his room and he wasn't allowed to eat formula just clear pedialyte so he drank that down and he was very fussy and not happy, i never seen him so mad before :( he fell asleep alot and woke up mad and then they let us start him on formula. We thought we were going home but they told us he will be staying overnight, which we really weren't prepared for. about 2 hours later Liam's surgeon came in and told us that he looked great just a little narrowing nothing to worry about right now, and everything is still doing what its suppose to be doing, and that Thursday he had another heart patient surgery but it got cancelled because the patient was ill and wanted to know if we wanted to take that slot for Liam. My heart had stopped because i was not ready for any of this, if it would have been an emergency then i had no choice, but he did say that he understood if we couldn't because it is short notice, he just thought since we were already going to be in the hospital then it would be easier, but we chose not to do the surgery on Thursday, because i did want to be able to get ready not just try to get in the Ronald Mcdonald House and pack and say goodbye to the kids since i left Tuesday morning and the kids hadn't seen us all day and they wouldn't see us until the next day. So this morning the Surgeon and the Pediatric Cardiology team had a meeting about Liam and decided that we could pick which date for the surgery. So we had discussed last night when was a good time for Liam's surgery which in my mind i wish i didn't have to choose but of course i need to get back to reality, so they gave us the available dates and we picked Friday March 14th.So in 2 weeks we will be back at the hospital and atleast we get to spend more time with Liam and the kids before we are back on the Roller Coaster Ride. We have to be at the Hospital on Thursday March 13th for all his labs and chest xrays and to check into the Ronald Mcdonald house and then we all stay the night at the Ronald Mcdonald house and he gets checked in at the Unit at 6am. Please continue to pray and i hope these next 2 weeks go by very slow, i am going to try to get the pictures up that we took from the hospital soon

1 comment:

Carol & Frank said...

I am so sorry that I haven't answered sooner. I tried to call you about a week ago, but, there was no answer - hope you got my message! A belated 5 month birthday to Liam - we can't believe that the time has gone so quickly! Wish I could hear him "talk"!! What a blessing that the Cath went so well - he is truly AMAZING!! Our prayers are ALWAYS with Liam and all of you and they will continue through his upcoming surgery on the 14th and beyond! I'm so sorry that you were all sick and hope that you are all feeling MUCH BETTER now. We were so excited to see your Mom and Dad, Sarah - we hated the time to end! We love you all and keep you in our thoughts and prayers. I'll try to call again soon. Love, hugs and kisses to ALL, Carol, Frank, Debbie, Zach, Bobbie and all of the Wilson Clan!!

jan 31st 08

jan 31st 08
come on liam smile


theres a little one

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There it is!!!