Caden’s Page

Caden arrived home at approximately 1:00pm this afternoon (Friday 9/26). PRAISE GOD! So how does a kid go from the picture on the left (taken Monday 9/22) just after leaving the operating room where he received a major open heart surgery to the picture on the right (taken Friday 9/26) in just four days?  I […]

A room came available and we were moved to 7C just before lunch time today (Thursday).  We are on the 7th floor of the Children’s Hospital, room 784.  We are blessed with our favorite nurse that has known Caden from birth.  She even remembered Riley’s name! We are enjoying the freedoms of being out of […]

I talked to Caden’s nurse at about 5:30 this morning and Caden had a good night.  There were a few spells of Caden trying to wake up, but nothing too exciting.  “Nothing too exciting” is what you want in the first 24 hours after a day like yesterday.  The nurse full expects Caden to be […]

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 […]

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.  […]

We will see Caden’s cardiologist on the 20th of August. We have many outstanding questions and the list of procedures that Caden needs is increasing. Sherry and I felt that it might be best to just let you read the emails that passed between me and the cardiologist in the past two weeks. That should […]

I took a few minutes last night to catch up on our little friend Callie from Atlanta. She has been at Stanford since last July where she has endured numerous surgeries and spent a majority of her time in the ICU. This week Callie was moved back to an Atlanta Children’s Hospital via a care […]

Answered Prayer Caden had his six month cardiology check up today. The appointment came complete with an EKG and an echo cardiogram. The results of the visit seemed to surprise the cardiologist and it lifted a huge weight off of our shoulders. Sherry and I both had trouble sleeping last night. The past few weeks […]

One of Caden’s big appointments for the month is behind us. The results were mixed from my perspective. The good news is that we misunderstood the severity of Caden’s diagnosis last year. It seems that the severity of the curvature was less than we had thought. The bad news is that the curvature has progressed […]