Owen's echo showed no real changes on Monday, and he is still doing awesome at gaining weight. The cardiologist basically said, he has a VSD, but he's not letting it bother him, as he is not in any distress, or showing any symptoms typical to babies with a VSD as big as his is. Because he was doing so well, we got the go ahead to schedule his surgery in 6 weeks.
Owen will be having surgery on April 1st, exactly one year and one day after I found out I was pregnant with him. I found that a little bittersweet. The surgery takes about 5 hours, and we expect him to be in the Hospital in Milwaukee for about 5 days if everything goes well. I will do my best to keep the blog updated with his progress while we are in the hospital, and while he is recovering at home. We have been given many assurances that everything should go well, as he is doing extremely well going into surgery. Right now we are remembering that we are very lucky to be going into this situation with a "healthy" child, as it will make his recovery that much easier.
Since most of you reading are family and friends, if anyone is interested in donating blood for Owen, please let me know, comment here, or message me on facebook. I need to get the directed donation stuff set up, but once I do I can give anyone who wants it more information about how to donate.
Thank you all for your wishes, thoughts, and prayers, we are grateful for them all.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Update....
I am back to work, I survived my first full week! The only thing that means is that I don't have as much time to keep the blog updated, but I will try to make sure I at least get our progress reports out here.
We saw the cardiologist yesterday, and he called Owen Mr. Consistent. He gained another 450 grams, exactly what he had gained the two weeks prior. Oh yeah, that's the same thing as a pound by the way. So now we are at 8lbs 12 oz, and if he keeps this up he will be really close to 11 pounds by the end of February. The Dr. also said that he still sounds pretty good, and his liver is getting a little bigger, but not big enough to be overly concerned. Owen is having a followup echo. in two weeks so we will know a lot more about exactly when surgery will be. If the echo looks good and his weight gain stays consistent we are looking at March or April for surgery.
Owen woke up with his first cold today, poor guy, he had a super stuffy nose and a bad cough. Another downside of the heart condition is that we can't really give him any medicine for the cough because it all speeds up the heart. Hopefully he will handle it well, and get through it fast. My goal is to keep him eating because if he doesn't eat they may send him to the hospital. He's a trooper though, so I am sure we will be fine.
We saw the cardiologist yesterday, and he called Owen Mr. Consistent. He gained another 450 grams, exactly what he had gained the two weeks prior. Oh yeah, that's the same thing as a pound by the way. So now we are at 8lbs 12 oz, and if he keeps this up he will be really close to 11 pounds by the end of February. The Dr. also said that he still sounds pretty good, and his liver is getting a little bigger, but not big enough to be overly concerned. Owen is having a followup echo. in two weeks so we will know a lot more about exactly when surgery will be. If the echo looks good and his weight gain stays consistent we are looking at March or April for surgery.
Owen woke up with his first cold today, poor guy, he had a super stuffy nose and a bad cough. Another downside of the heart condition is that we can't really give him any medicine for the cough because it all speeds up the heart. Hopefully he will handle it well, and get through it fast. My goal is to keep him eating because if he doesn't eat they may send him to the hospital. He's a trooper though, so I am sure we will be fine.
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