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ANOTHER UPDATE HE'S HOME- see MORE pics below
My ten year old boy is having heart surgery on Thursday August 18th. He was born with a congenital heart defect which has required several surgeries. The last one was done 9 years ago at the U-M (that is one of the reasons the Wolverines are our second favorite teams, but no one wiill ever be above the Horns!!) but now it is time to replace the arterial graft on his heart described here. We just call it "the conduit".
The link shows the operation done in Ann Arbor when he was a year old, but part about the arterial graft described there is the same thing they are doing on Thursday. He has simply outgrown the graft but it has also begun to calcify and constrict the flow of blood to his body.
He's a great kid (as all children are), but he's also special to us. He is an only child and will have to remain that way due to complications during the pregnancy. He's tall and handsome at 10 years and 4 foot 9 inches. The kid absolutely loves building stuff, whether it's Legos or mud and sticks in the backyard. As you can see from the pictures he has grown up pretty normal, playing LIttle League Baseball, and as my golfing buddy once birdied two holes in nine that we played on par-3 course (one of them being a chip-in out of the sand)
. We have never held him back from trying ANYTHING, but lately his body had been telling him to slow down a bit and during the last visit to the cardiologist in June they noticed the constriction in the conduit, so now the time has come. We knew it was coming. In fact, it was a pleasnat surprise to the doctors that he got that much time out of the graft, so that helps in that he is just that much bigger and stronger.
Anyhow, I didn't think a whole lot about getting nervous before the big day, but frankly I am downright scared. The closer we get to the day the more apprehensive I get. I know he is in the best of care, but still, I hate the idea of someone so young and precious having to endure this kind of thing, even if it wasn't my own child.
Please pray for him or think good thoughts for him during the next few days.
Thanks you all.
My ten year old boy is having heart surgery on Thursday August 18th. He was born with a congenital heart defect which has required several surgeries. The last one was done 9 years ago at the U-M (that is one of the reasons the Wolverines are our second favorite teams, but no one wiill ever be above the Horns!!) but now it is time to replace the arterial graft on his heart described here. We just call it "the conduit".
The link shows the operation done in Ann Arbor when he was a year old, but part about the arterial graft described there is the same thing they are doing on Thursday. He has simply outgrown the graft but it has also begun to calcify and constrict the flow of blood to his body.
He's a great kid (as all children are), but he's also special to us. He is an only child and will have to remain that way due to complications during the pregnancy. He's tall and handsome at 10 years and 4 foot 9 inches. The kid absolutely loves building stuff, whether it's Legos or mud and sticks in the backyard. As you can see from the pictures he has grown up pretty normal, playing LIttle League Baseball, and as my golfing buddy once birdied two holes in nine that we played on par-3 course (one of them being a chip-in out of the sand)
Anyhow, I didn't think a whole lot about getting nervous before the big day, but frankly I am downright scared. The closer we get to the day the more apprehensive I get. I know he is in the best of care, but still, I hate the idea of someone so young and precious having to endure this kind of thing, even if it wasn't my own child.
Please pray for him or think good thoughts for him during the next few days.
Thanks you all.
