We will get to see Caden at about 5:15. He is in the PCICU recovering. The surgeon talked with Sherry and I and told us things went well. The bleeding is not a huge surprise, but they will want to monitor it to make sure it stops. They have chest drain tubes in to relieve […]
Archive for September, 2008
Monday, September 22nd, 2008We 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 […]
Caden 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 got the call this morning that Caden is on the schedule for open heart surgery on Monday, September 22. This will be an aortic valve repair/replacement and pacemaker removal. We will be at MUSC pretty much all day tomorrow 9/19 for pre-op work up. Caden will probably not be admitted until just before surgery […]
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 […]
I just signed the release for surgery on Friday morning. The general surgeons will explore the area next to the g-tube to determine if there is any internal infection. They will determine at that time if there is a need to move the g-tube site. ENT has been contacted and will be allowed to replace […]
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. […]