Caden’s Page

Seven years ago today at the Medical University of South Carolina our family was blessed with a new addition. Caden was born via C-Section early that Tuesday morning as the presidential election began that would result in the re-election of George W. Bush to a second term. The picture to the right is of Sherry [...]

Caden has been off oxygen for about a week and a half and has been doing pretty good over all.  The picture on the right shows how much he enjoys being a big brother.  He took Levi (9 months this week) for a ride on the slide at the local park this past week. I [...]

Caden went to the PICU after surgery yesterday. This was mostly precautionary.  Sherry and I did not know going into this scoliosis VEPTR Rod process would require an ICU stay every time Caden has an adjustment.  Come to find out this is the norm for this particular surgeon even when the surgery is less invasive. [...]

Caden has been out of the hospital for three days following his scoliosis surgery and we are finally getting back to “normal”. Life is a somewhat new normal for our family for at least a season, but normal none the less.  Caden has come out of this scoliosis surgery with a much slower recovery than [...]

Caden’s day was not so smooth, but his night has been great so far.  He did have a fever again, but the doctors have finally agreed to add an antibiotic to treat sinus and ear infections as well as pneumonia.  They are now giving Caden Rocephin via IV.  There is no diagnosis of pneumonia, but [...]

Tuesday is the big day. Caden is scheduled for another major surgery this week. He will be getting VEPTR rods placed in his back on both sides of his spine. These rods will be attached to the rear of his rib cage at the top and to his pelvis on the bottom end of the [...]

We took Caden to see the pediatric orthopedics clinic at MUSC this past week. We ended up having the discussion that we expected, about surgery. The x-rays taken on Monday showed that Caden’s scoliosis curve has progressed to 73 degrees up from 68 degrees in March. Passing the 70 degree mark was a mild stone [...]

Today was the big day.  Caden had a surgery called a cricopharyngeal myotomy.  This surgery was preformed to divide (cut) the muscle that causes the UES (Upper Esophageal Sphincter) to squeeze closed. In Caden’s case the muscle has never relaxed enough to allow for him to pass food, drink, or even his own saliva into [...]

We took Caden in for a visit with the MUSC orthopedics surgeon on Monday. The official word on the MRI is that Caden’s spine is healthy. They did order an x-ray on Monday that revealed a slight progression in the scoliosis curve.  The new measurement is basically about 59 degrees which is up from 54 [...]