New Plan

Carson was extubated in the O.R. on Monday and then was later intubated again. Are you noticing a trend? They didn't really find anything new, just confirmed what they already knew. His airway is being compressed in a couple spots. They were hoping (and so were we) that he would get better with a little bit more time, but it doesn't look like that's going to happen. His arteries are compressing his bronchial tubes, so the only way to fix that is to move the arteries. So the plan for now is to have surgery on Monday (of course we know that things can change). He will have the transposition repaired (which will move the arteries) and they will fix as many of the VSD's (holes) as possible. We were all hoping that he would be able to grow and get bigger before the next surgery. Having the surgery doesn't guarantee that his breathing problems will go away, but they definitely aren't going to get better before the surgery. So, they can't wait to do the surgery. He just has to finish his antibiotics for the bowel infection (which is looking better last we heard). So anyway, that's the update. I hope it all makes sense.

We plan on fasting for Carson on Sunday. Any and all of you that are able and willing are invited to do so as well. We are terrified for this surgery. It is a complicated surgery and Carson has to go on bypass for it. We hope and pray that it will go well.

Here are some of the latest pics of Carson.


He can get pretty grabby some times and we took a picture right when he was pulling on one of his tubes.


Here are some pics of Melina looking for eggs. I just thought I would throw these in. We had a good Easter.