10 months ago!

Wow! I can't believe it has already been 10 months since Caius was born. It was 10 months ago when I got to see and hold my little sweetie for a minute only to have him whisked away to the NICU. That was an extremely hard 10 days. But his heart defect seemed manageable after we got out of the hospital. He was eating on his own, if things got bad we would start meds and then do the surgery in 4-6 months. The thought of surgery was and is scary but it all just seemed so surreal.

Well here we are 10 months later having gone through, 2 bouts of congestive heart failure, pulmonary hypertension, NG tube, jaundice, Pulmonary arterial band surgery, G-Tube surgery, 2 ambulance rides, plus 5 stays in the PICU and still no heart repair surgery. I think if they would have told me that this was going to be our path that I would have passed out!

God is good though! He has blessed us with amazing friends and family who have helped us through this tough year and are gearing up to come help again!

Caius' AV Canal surgery will be one week from today. He will be admitted on Monday and then go to surgery early Tuesday morning. This will be a very long surgery. His chest will be completely opened and he will be put on a bypass machine so they can stop his heart and rebuild it. Please pray for him and for his surgeons and nurses. His surgeons names are Dr. Calhoon and Dr. Husein.

I will be doing short updates on Facebook but for main updates check back here. Thanks for your prayers!