James has been doing good today and he has recovered well from his surgery. His blood pressure has been a little low so they have added volume to get it higher. He was taken off the medicine that was keeping him paralyzed and sedated. They hope to get the breathing tube out in 2-3 days and will start feeding him and the goal is to do it orally. All the doctors seem pleased and says that he is doing well. Now we just want him to rest, start eating and get stronger and ready for the Norwood procedure. He will have the Norwood procedure sometime between Monday and Thursday next week.
What the Norwood procedure does is to connect the aorta with the pulmonary artery so all blood will be pumped in the aorta supplying blood to the body, secondly a Gore-Tex tube will be attached on the branch of the aorta down to the pulmonary artery to get blood back to the lungs. This way the right side pumps blood to both the body and the lungs. They will also cut all the tissue between the right and the left atrium out so it will be one big chamber.
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