Well...we have had a very long day! We arrived at the hospital around 6:15 am and went back to our room fairly soon after. Landon was taken from us at 7:30 to be prepped for his surgery. The surgery started at 9:30 and they began closing him around 5:00. They had a lot of work to do! The doctors weren't happy with where the button for his feeding tube was, so they began by removing that so it didn't cause any problems. Then, they patched his lower hole, which was a concern for them. It turns out they were happy with where it was and the process went very smoothly. They placed a device that closes the hole and once they got it placed there wasn't any extra blood flowing through it. That is the goal for that device and hole, so the first phase went well. Then Dr. A moved on to repairing his aorta. It turns out that it was re-narrowing, but he had some scar tissue from the first surgery that was creating a problem. He cut the arch of the aorta and placed the patch so that the aorta is much bigger now and blood can flow better through it. Then, they moved on to patching his other VSD. That went so well, they patched the hole that he had in his atrium. (I know what many of you are thinking. I thought he only had two holes? He had three, but the third wasn't as much of a concern so we never really talked about it.) They thought that they might as well patch that one since they were already in there. They allowed him to wake up for a brief period of time to check his movement and all was well. He was moving his arms and legs well, so they put him back to sleep so that he could rest and recover. They are monitoring his brain closely because stroke or seizure are a possibility with this surgery.
He handled the surgery very well considering he was put on by-pass at 3-1/2 months old. We are hoping for a speedy recovery and as much comfort as he can have. It is now 6:40 and we haven't seen him since 7:30 this morning. We can't wait to see him! We did not have a comfortable place to wait during the surgery. The pre/post-op rooms are small and do not have comfortable chairs! Landon is back in the room we had before, not the room we shared, so we are very familiar with that room. We have been told that he will have about twice as many tubes and lines than he had the first time, but we don't care, we just really want to see him!
We thank everyone who has prayed for Landon and who has asked others to pray for him! We would not have made it through this without all of the prayers and support. I apologize that I don't have pictures with this post. I didn't have time to upload his Easter pictures before we left. Hopefully I will have some soon. All our love and gratitude to everyone!
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