Heart Cath

We are in recovery from having James heart catheter done today. He is still sleeping, but will wake up soon. His leg needs to be still 4 hours after the catheter so he needs to lay flat and his leg is tied down. Everything went really well, but when the anesthesiologist was taking out his breathing tube he stopped breathing and they had to give him medicine to relax his lungs and they gave his some help getting his breath back. The doctor believe that he still have some traces left on his lungs from the flu, he had in the beginning of May, and they believe that is why it happened. Therefore they have decided to wait a few weeks with the Glenn surgery. Hopefully we do not need to wait to long for the procedure. But better to play it safe than take any risks. We will stay the night at the hospital and then we will all go home in the morning. We will post the new surgery date as soon as we have gotten it scheduled.

Ready for heart catheter

Getting better

We are still at the hospital as of Sunday morning. James has been doing well and he hasn't gotten any worse. He still has a cough and he still has a stuffy nose. He is back up on his feeding with almost the same formula as he had when he was well. We started giving him 10 calories per fluid ounce yesterday, then he moved up to 19 cal/fl oz, then 24 cal/ fl oz, and this latest feed he got 27 cal/ fl oz. They will keep him at that for a little while and then he will get back at 30 cal/ fl oz, which has been his normal energy intake. The doctors came by earlier and they though that he was doing really well. They said either he did not get a serious case of the flu or he is a true fighter, we decided to go with the latter. He really is a fighter, how much can you go through and still have a smile on your face? He is doing so great and we are very proud of him. We are also allowed to bring him home today, we are just waiting to see how his feedings are going. He might stay until tomorrow morning, just to be on the safe side. He has been away from the house for almost 72 hours now, but be are so glad that we found out that he had the flu and got help so quickly. Children's medical center has really taken care of us and all the staff is amazing. We are so grateful to have them in our family. We tried to give him the bottle this morning, but he was not interested. We will take it slow and hopefully get back to it soon.

James 10 weeks back at CMC Dallas

Swabbing

The nurses swabbed James nose last night to see if he had any viruses in his body and unfortunetly he does. He has the flu, parainfluenza type three. We are so glad that he is admitted and we can only hope that he will be strong and get over this quick. We are keeping him hydrated by only feeding him 70 ml pedialyte every three hours. If he keeps it down he will get back on formula today. We are just hoping that will happen and get back to his normal feedings.