We have a plan.

We had a later start to the day today. Chelsea had a doctor's appointment that we had to get transferred to down here and luckily where we have to park our car for the RMcDH is a kaiser parking garage so we are within walking distance to the Kaiser clinic which makes things nice. We left a little early last night because we felt helpless and frustrated with everything and need to remove ourselves from the situation. We found our way to a Bestbuy and bought a new series to us called Entourage which is pretty funny. We try to watch it and take our mind off things. When we got back to Ronald's a real estate company had volunteered their time and made everyone in the house a nice dinner. We have noticed this happens almost every night during the week. It's nice to not have to worry about cooking after a long day.
Owen did good through the night. He is very strong and they comment on that often. I don't think that I have mentioned this before but he had a Arterial Line placed when he intubated. This line goes directly into an artery instead of a vein. This allows them to get continuous blood pressure from Owen and draw blood from as it well. Owen had to have another IV placed which is bigger than the others he has had but I am good with that. The bigger the better is what I am use to.
Owen's surgeon came and talked to us today. His plan is to connect a shunt from Owen's Aorta to pulmonary artery. He described this as being the safest of all plans and to have the best outcome. The pulmonary veins are to small at this time to mess with unless they have to. The plan afterward would be to let us go home if he is able to hold his saturation's above 75 all the time. They are looking to buy more time for Owen to grow 3-4 more months before they would have to do another procedure. We were told that this is a high risk surgery with Owen's other issues in his heart but what open heart surgery is not high risk. We have a feeling of being trapped up against a wall, on one hand we can't take him home this way because he can not keep his saturation's high enough and on the other he has to have a open heart surgery to fix something temporarily. There is the possibility that it might not work and they might have to look at the veins. What do you do? Chelsea and I are tired. We are tired of this whole process. I am tired of looking at Owen intubated and waking up from time to time. It brings tears to my eyes every time he is staring at me and just wondering "what is going on?". He looks as if he is trying to cry but can not. It breaks my heart to see him like this. A lot of people ask us how we do it. We are only doing what every parent would do. You put everything to the side, the only thing that is important is each other. We stay strong for each other. When one of us has a bad day the other is there to pick you up- Including Owen picking the two of us up at times. This has forever changed us as parents, husband and wife, friends, and people in general. Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers as well as the surgeons and all other staff that take care of him.
-Chris