Tuesday Evening

Request from Selena Morgan

Please add Kaden Underwood to the prayerlink. He is the 5 month old son of a Southeastern classmate. He is undergoing heart surgery somewhere up north. Please pray for this baby as well as his parents and the doctors as they care for him.

Today’s post by Faith Hill

In her post yesterday, Melinda gave me a simple prayer that I am trying to remember as each minute passes. “Father, please heal my son and if You choose not to, please keep me faithful.”

Today has been quiet and a lesson in patience. After Aaron‘s breathing tube was removed yesterday evening, he had a fairly pleasant night. He shed a lot more fluid, so today he is getting more blood products. They aren’t feeding him or giving him any IV nutrition other than blood products just yet, but they might start with something tonight. We hope so, as Aaron needs to bulk up to keep up with Levi.

On the surgical front, Dr. Spray reviewed all of Aaron’s images from the cath and his progress from the weekend. The location of the two remaining holes (if they are still there) would make it unlikely that they could be closed in a surgery. They would be hard to locate and view. The only other approach for closing them would be for a coil device to be placed during a heart cath, but one of the holes could not be reached that way, either. Aaron would only be a candidate for this procedure when he is older–most desirably 3 or 4 years old.

Before last Friday, the doctors thought Aaron did not have enough blood flow to his lungs. So they were trying to help him get more with drugs, oxygen, nitric, etc. In reality, the cath revealed that he had the opposite problem and the treatment was hurting him. We are hoping that since they now realize the true problem, Aaron’s heart will be able to do the work on its own. In the event this does not work, Aaron might have to have surgery where a band is placed on his pulmonary artery to try and slow the blood flow to his heart/lungs. This band would allow Aaron to grow until he is big enough for an interventional heart cath. We aren’t eager for him to have another surgery, b/c any surgery is dangerous, but the placement of the pulmonary band would not require any cutting on Aaron’s heart, so it is a LITTLE less scary. We are hopeful he won’t need this.

We are still practicing patience. Aaron is still covered in leads, catheters, chest tubes, wires to his heart, medication lines to his heart, ivs, bandages, etc. We are still eager to hold him, but the best we can do is stand by him and talk to him, give him his pacifier and promise him love, hugs, kisses and treats when he is better. We long for that day. Please keep praying for Aaron.