Thursday, February 28, 2008
Day 2
Things have gone fairly well today. The doctors new approach is to not do anything to get him mad...I like this approach! He still desats probably because he is uncomfortable from IV's, high flow O2 and the chaos. He remains in the 60's occasionally going into the high 40's-50's with a high heart rate. They had to give him morphine once today to calm him. Other than that pretty uneventful day. Post-op talk. The Glenn is supposed to be easier on him than the Norwood because they are not planning on going into the heart. They will just be re-routing plumbing around the heart. He goes in tomorrow morning (7-8ish) and they hope to be done around 2-3ish. They will probably have to put him on bypass and try to get the kids off ventilator withing 1-2 days because of the way their pulmonary artery receives lungs. They have to do an art line or pic line which can take sometime and opening the chest is more difficult second time around. Prognosis is 95% to get through this surgery which is much better than the Norwood. Complications include pulmonary pressure problems, bleeding, stroke, arrhythmias (they will be looking for this due to his arrest after the norwood. So pray for little Tyler tomorrow. Recovery can be anywhere from 1-2 weeks to 1-2 months.
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We are thinking of you and sending our prayers to Tyler. He is one strong little boy! Thank you for your blog. It helps so much to know just what is happening. We hope that tomorrow goes smoothly and that recovery at the hospital is on the quick side. We love you all! Betty and Bob
We love you!!! We're keeping busy with Scott and gave ourselves a little treat tonight by going out to Rocco's with Scott. He had a fun time opening all the peanuts and finding his prize of 2 peanuts in every shell. He had a great day but with no nap crashed at 7pm. Tomorrow Pop will be taking him to the Civic Arts Terribly Terrific Two's class - I know he'll have fun playing and meeting some new friends. Prayers are being said for Tyler by everyone I talk to and we send all our love, prayers, support and hugs.
Love, Mom and Dad
I will be thinking of you all day...I hope you get a little rest tonight and tomorrow goes soooo smooth...Good luck...Prayers,good vibes and anything else that will make it goe smoothly..
Ai yai yai, I don't know how you do it. My heart aches just reading about everything you and your little angel are going through!!!
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