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 […]
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Friday, September 5th, 2008We 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. […]
We are still at MUSC and the source of the fevers has not been identified. Caden has been on and off of oxygen for the past 24 hours. His O2 sats were dropping into the 80s without oxygen. His normal range is 97+. His heart defects did not affect his SATS the way some kids […]
Caden is being admitted to MUSC after the ER visit mentioned in the previous post. The fever he had when Sherry left for the hospital earlier today took four hours to break. Sherry and the ER doctor hit it off really well. The doctor was very straight forward and transparent about his line of thinking […]
A firm heart surgery date has been set for October 15th. I say firm date because that is the date that we have reserved on the schedule. There is a slim chance that we may get the surgery done on September 22nd, however that date is dependent on the surgical load of the doctor leading […]
Our visit with Caden’s cardiologist today was bizarre in some ways. We sort of had ourselves built up for what we thought we were going to hear and BAM! And then before it is all over with the cardiologist says they will be putting Caden on the schedule for pacemaker removal AND the major left […]
Today we see Cardiology. Please keep us in your prayers as previously requested. The last post details what all we will be talking about and why. I have been playing with our new digital camera. It is a low end point a shoot that we got to replace the one I broke on Josiah’s birthday. […]
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 […]
The cardiology department at MUSC finally contacted us last week via voice mail concerning the Halter monitor. The message said that they did not get what they wanted from the last monitor. They mentioned possible battery problems which I know was not the case. The display on the Halter monitor was working and displaying that […]